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Genus
Classification
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Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Celmisia ramulosa Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 733 (1867)
Synonymy:
Type: New Zealand. Middle [South] Island, Dusky Bay mountains, alt. 3500 ft., 1865, J. Hector 13 in Herbarium Hookerianum (holotype K 882095)
Description
Small shrub or subshrub with rather stout procumbent to ascending branched woody stems up to c. 2 dm. long; branchlets stiff, rather close-set, ± 5 cm. long. Lvs densely imbricate, erect, finally reflexed. Lamina ± 5–10 × 1·5–2 mm., linear-oblong to subulate, coriac.; upper surface glab. or nearly so, pale green; lower surface densely clad in soft white tomentum obscuring midrib; margins strongly revolute; apex obtuse, ± trigonous-cucullate; base passing into broad pale membr. glab. sheath ± = lamina, with distinct midrib. Scape c. 1–4 cm. long, slender, densely glandular-pubescent; bracts few. ± 5 mm. long, linear. Capitula 2–2.5 cm. diam.; phyll. c. 5 mm. long, linear-oblong, acute to subacute, densely glandular-pubescent. Ray-florets narrow, disk-florets narrow-tubular, c. 5 mm. long. Achenes c. 3–4 mm. long, narrow-cylindric, obscurely ribbed, with a few hairs. Pappus-hairs fine, white to sordid-white, up to ± 4 mm. long, very minutely barbellate.
[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1.]
Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
| Category | Number |
|---|---|
| Indigenous (Endemic) | 2 |
| Total | 2 |
Bibliography
Hooker, J.D. 1867: Handbook of the New Zealand Flora: a systematic description of the native plants of New Zealand and the Chatham, Kermadec's, Lord Auckland's, Campbell's, and Macquarrie's Islands. Part II. Reeve, London.
Saldivia, P. 2023: Nomenclature and typifications in Celmisia (Asteraceae: Astereae): The New Zealand endemic subgenera Caespitosae, Glandulosae, and Lignosae. Phytotaxa 591(1): 31–45.
