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''Bedfordia'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Asteraceae. The genus includes 3 species, all endemic to Australia. ==Description== ''Bedfordia'' are shrubs or small trees. ;Stems and leaves: The young branches and lower surface of leaves and the whorl that surrounds the flower heads are densely covered with short matted and stellate hairs. :Leaves grow first on one side and then on the other in two ranks along the branches; not paired. Leaf edges are entire or with irregular rounded scallops, and have leaf stalks.〔 ;Flowers: Heads in dense axillary branched cluster which is shorter than the leaves. Flower heads have a flat circular shape; and are surrounded by a hairy bract which is at base. Tubular, bisexual florets, scarcely longer than the bract.〔 ;Fruits and reproduction: Cylindrical, grooved and not hairy achenes. Pappus bristles are finely toothed and twice as long as achenes.〔 ''B. salicina'' intergrades with ''B. arborescens'' (a tree) and ''B. linearis'' (a shrub). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bedfordia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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