Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Asterales Link
Family
Compositae Giseke
Genus
Celmisia Cass.
 Subordinate Taxa
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Celmisia hieraciifolia Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 124, t. 34B (1853)
Synonymy:
Type: New Zealand. Middle [South] Island, Nelson on the Mountains, J.C. Bidwill 46 in Herbarium Hookerianum (holotype K 882155)
  • = Celmisia hieraciifolia var. oblonga Kirk, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 27: 328 (1895) – as Celmisia hieracifolia var. oblonga
Type: New Zealand. South Island, Mt Stokes, Jan 1894, J. Macmahon s.n. (holotype WELT SP3286)
Etymology:
Leaves like Hieracium (Asteraceae, Hawkweeds).
 Description

Medium tufted herb, stock us. simple, pseudo-stem ± 4 cm. long. Lamina coriac., ± 4–8–12 cm. × (10)–12–20–(25) mm.; oblong-obovate to elliptic-oblong; upper surface glab., sts slightly viscid, pale green when fresh; lower densely clad in closely appressed satiny pale yellow to buff or almost white tomentum, nerves conspicuous in lower part; obtuse, sts apiculate; margins crenate to crenate-dentate, teeth us. with distinct apiculus, slightly narrowed to broad grooved short petiole or directly into glab. sheath c. 2 × 1 cm. Scape rather stout, 5–10–25 cm. long, viscid with dense glandular hairs. Bracts linear to subulate, glandular-pubescent, lower up to 4 cm. long. Capitula (2)–3–4–(5) cm. diam.; phyll. ± 13 mm. long, outer densely glandular-pubescent, linear-subulate, acute, midrib distinct, margins sts ± floccose. Ray-florets ∞, ± 12 mm. long, tube slender, limb narrow-linear. Disk-florets ± 7 mm. long, tubular to narrow-funnelform, teeth narrow-triangular. Achenes c. 5 mm. long, strongly ribbed, cylindric to subfusiform; hairs us. few, weak. Pappus-hairs white to sordid-white, slender, up to c. 6 mm. long, finely barbellate.

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

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
Number of subspecific taxa in New Zealand within Celmisia hieraciifolia Hook.f.
CategoryNumber
Indigenous (Endemic)3
Total3
 Bibliography
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. [as Celmisia hieraciifolia var. oblonga Kirk] [Data Deficient]
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. [as Celmisia hieraciifolia var. oblonga Kirk] [Not Threatened]
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