Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Asterales Link
Family
Compositae Giseke
Genus
Brachyglottis J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Brachyglottis cassinioides (Hook.f.) B.Nord., Opera Bot. 44: 30 (1978)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Senecio cassinioides Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 163 (1864)
 Description

Much-branched shrub up to 3 m. tall with deciduous papery bark; branchlets brittle, tomentose when young, clad in imbricating lvs. Lvs sessile, 4–8 × c. 2 mm., coriac., narrow-oblong, obtuse to subacute, entire, glab. above when mature, clad in white to yellowish white appressed tomentum below. Capitula solitary, sessile, terminal, us. < 1 cm. diam.; phyll. narrow-oblong, apiculate, coriac., tomentose, with scarious margins. Ray-florets 4–6, ligules short, broad, recurved, yellow. Achenes 2 mm. long, linear, grooved, glab.; pappus-hairs stiff, slender, barbellate, up to 5·5 mm. long.

[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1 as Senecio cassinioides Hook.f.]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Bibliography
Connor, H.E.; Edgar, E. 1987: Name changes in the indigenous New Zealand flora, 1960–1986 and Nomina Nova IV, 1983–1986. New Zealand Journal of Botany 25: 115–170.
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R.; Barkla J.W.; Courtney, S.P.; Champion, P.D.; Perrie, L.R.; Beadel, S.N.; Ford, K.A.; Breitwieser, I.; Schönberger, I.; Hindmarsh-Walls, R.; Heenan, P.B.; Ladley, K. 2018: Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2017. New Zealand Threat Classification Series. No. 22. [Not Threatened]
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R.; Champion, P.D.; Courtney, S.P.; Heenan, P.B.; Barkla, J.W.; Cameron, E.K.; Norton, D.A.; Hitchmough, R.A. 2013: Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2012. New Zealand Threat Classification Series 3. Department of Conservation, Wellington. [Not Threatened]
Hooker, J.D. 1864: Handbook of the New Zealand Flora: a systematic description of the native plants of New Zealand and the Chatham, Kermadec's, Lord Auckland's, Campbell's and Macquarie's Islands. Part I. Reeve, London.
Nordenstam, B. 1978: Taxonomic studies in the tribe Senecioneae (Compositae). Opera Botanica 44: 1–83.