Class
Order
Family
Classification
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Abrotanella rosulata (Hook.f.) Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 139 (1864)
Synonymy:
- ≡ Ceratella rosulata Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. I. (Fl. Antarct.) Part I, 25, t.18 (1844)
Description
Stock rather stout, multicipital, lf-rosettes crowded; lvs 6–8 × 3–4 mm., narrow-ovate to lanceolate or lanceolate-oblong, acute, coriac. Capitula 3–6 together on very short peduncles hardly elongating in fr. Phyll. 5–10, linear-oblong, coriac., with a pair of prominent veins close to midrib. Florets 5–10; corolla of disk-florets quadrangular, of ♀ tubular. Achenes 2–3mm. long, glab., 4-angled, the angles produced into minute horns.
[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1.]
Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
Bibliography
de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A.; Courtney, S.P.; Heenan, P.B.; Barkla, J.W.; Cameron, E.K.; Hitchmough, R.; Townsend, A.J. 2009: Threatened and uncommon plants of New Zealand (2008 revision). New Zealand Journal of Botany 47: 61–96. [Naturally uncommon]
de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A.; Heenan, P.B.; Courtney, S.P.; Molloy, B.P.J.; Ogle, C.C.; Rance, B.D. 2004: Threatened and uncommon plants of New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 42(1): 45–76.
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