Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Asterales Link
Family
Compositae Giseke
Genus
Celmisia Cass.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Celmisia lateralis var. villosa Cheeseman, Man. New Zealand Fl. 302 (1906)
Synonymy:
Type: New Zealand. South Island, Mt Murchinson, Buller Valley, 3000–4500 ft., W.L Townson 565 (holotype AK 24964, AK 209507, AK 209501)
 Description

Lvs clad on both surfaces and margins in glandular hairs, lamina rather quickly narrowed into acicular tip. Scapes glandular-pubescent, also ± clad in floccose hairs; phyll. with scarious margins, ± clad in soft hairs at tips. Achenes c. 1·5 mm. long, ± glandular, ± pilose, pappus-hairs very slender.

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

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Bibliography
Cheeseman, T.F. 1906: Manual of the New Zealand Flora. Government Printer, Wellington.
Saldivia, P. 2023: Nomenclature and typifications in Celmisia (Asteraceae: Astereae): The New Zealand endemic subgenera Caespitosae, Glandulosae, and Lignosae. Phytotaxa 591(1): 31–45.