Classification
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Celmisia cordatifolia Buchanan, Trans. New Zealand Inst. 11: 427, t. 18 (1879)
Synonymy:
  • Celmisia petiolata var. cordatifolia (Buchanan) Kirk, Stud. Fl. New Zealand 427 (1899)
 Description

Woody-based herb with short branchlets arising from a sparsely multicipital stock, usually just below the soil surface; living leaves in rosettes at the tips of branchlets; the whole plant forming a clump of several rosettes. Leaf sheaths densely imbricate and compacted into a pseudostem. Leaf lamina (4)-6-8-(12) × (2)-3.5-4.5-(5) cm, coriaceous, at first erect but later decumbent, cordate to ovate; upper surface often sulcate, concolorous, yellowishto glaucous-green, glabrous or with scattered white hairs when young; lower surface densely clad with ferrugineous or whitish hairs: tip acute; margins entire, recurved, often with a rim of ferrugineous hairs; base prominently cordate; petiole up to twice lamina length, purple, covered in floccose ferrugineous hairs. Scape purple, clad in dense ferrugineous tomentum, up to 35 cm long; bracts publicanumerous, erect, linear, monocephalous. Capitula obcorup to 6 cm diam. Phyllaries in several series, linear-subulate, erect, glabrous in lower part and localdensely brown-tomentose towards tip. Ray florets c. 25, ligulate, the limb linear-lanceolate, white. Disc florets c. 110, funneliform, yellow; tube with eglandular biseriate hairs. Achene fusiform cylindric, ribbed, 4-5 mm long, glabrous. Pappus unequal, 5-6 mm long, of 25-30 bristles.

[Reproduced from Given (1984, New Zealand J. Bot. 22: 139-158) with permission from The Royal Society of New Zealand.]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
Number of subspecific taxa in New Zealand within Celmisia cordatifolia Buchanan
CategoryNumber
Indigenous (Endemic)2
Total2
 Bibliography
Buchanan, J. 1879: Description of a new species of Celmisia. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute 11: 427–428.
Given, D. R. 1984: A taxonomic revision of Celmisia subgenus Pelliculatae section Petiolatae (Compositae -- Astereae). New Zealand Journal of Botany 22: 139–158.
Kirk,T. 1899: The Students' Flora of New Zealand and the Outlying Islands. Government Printer, Wellington, N.Z.