Actinotus bellidioides

Actinotus bellidioides
Actinotus bellidioides in south west Tasmania
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Apiales
Family: Apiaceae
Genus: Actinotus
Species:
A. bellidioides
Binomial name
Actinotus bellidioides

Actinotus bellidioides, sometimes known as the tiny flannel-flower, is a rosette-forming herb endemic to Tasmania, Australia. Its name derives from the genus Bellis (family Asteraceae) combined with the Greek -oides (“resembling”), referencing the leaf similarity to Bellis. Although recorded in Western Australia in 1891 and Victoria in 1944, A. bellidioides is now presumed extinct on mainland Australia and persists only in Tasmania.