Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Asterales Link
Family
Compositae Giseke
Genus
Brachyglottis J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
 Subordinate Taxa
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Brachyglottis perdicioides (Hook.f.) B.Nord., Opera Bot. 44: 30 (1978)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Senecio perdicioides Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 149 (1852)
  • = Senecio multinerve Colenso, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 25: 330 (1892 [1893])
  • = Senecio tripetaloides Colenso, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 31: 272 (1899)
Vernacular Name(s):
Pua rangitoto; Raukūmara
 Description

Shrub up to 2 m. tall; branchlets slender, pubescent, striate. Lvs glab., membr., 2.5–5 × 2 cm., on slender petioles c. 1 cm. long, oblong to elliptic-oblong, rather finely crenate-serrate. Corymbs crowded; lower bracts foliaceous; capitula c. 12, up to 1 cm. diam., turbinate, on slender pubescent pedicels. Ray-florets few (us.1–3), ligules yellow, 7·5 mm. long, broad. Phyll. oblong, midrib pubescent, margins broad, scarious. Achenes angled, pubescent, .becoming nearly glab., 2–2.5 mm. long; pappus-hairs stiff, slender, up to 5 mm. long, finely barbellate.

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

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
Number of subspecific taxa in New Zealand within Brachyglottis perdicioides (Hook.f.) B.Nord.
CategoryNumber
Indigenous (Endemic)2
Total2
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