Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Asterales Link
Family
Compositae Giseke
Genus
Celmisia Cass.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Celmisia discolor var. ampla Allan, Fl. New Zealand 1, 621, 967 (1961)
Synonymy:
Type: New Zealand. South Island, Head of Clarence River, 19 Feb 1947, R. Mason s.n. (holotype CHR 58285)
 Description

Stems very stout, up to ± 35 cm. long and 5 mm. diam. Lamina viscid, obovate-oblong, ± 3–4 × 1–1·5 cm., minutely apiculate, remotely denticulate; petiole flat, ± 5 mm. long, abruptly expanded into sheath. Scape ± 10 cm. long, glandular-pubescent; bracts linear-spathulate, apiculate, lower up to 2 cm. long. Capitula ± 25 mm. diam.; phyll. to 10–12 mm. long, linear-oblong, upper 2/3 floccose, lower 1/3 pale, indurated, with marginal hairs. Achenes ± 3 mm. long, compressed-obovoid; ribs fine, clad in soft spreading hairs.

[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1.]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Bibliography
Saldivia, P. 2023: Nomenclature and typifications in Celmisia (Asteraceae: Astereae): The New Zealand endemic subgenera Caespitosae, Glandulosae, and Lignosae. Phytotaxa 591(1): 31–45.