Classification
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Craspedia minor var. viscosa (Colenso) Allan, Fl. New Zealand 1, 724-725 (1961)
Synonymy:
  • Craspedia viscosa Colenso, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 16: 333 (1883 [1884])
  • Craspedia uniflora var. viscosa (Colenso) Kirk, Stud. Fl. New Zealand 990 (1899)
 Description

Rather larger and more viscid; rosette-lvs 2.5–5 × 0·5–2 cm., obovate-spathulate, apiculate or not; upper surface very densely clad in short subhispid hairs, lower surface less densely so; margins ± ciliate but not showing a distinct white fringe of hairs. Scapes up to 30 cm. long, up to nearly 2 mm. diam., clad in short hispid hairs, becoming glab. Glomerules 1·25–2 cm. diam.; achenes 1 mm. long, clad in silky hairs, becoming glab.

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

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Bibliography
Colenso, W. 1884 ("1883"): A further contribution towards making known the botany of New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 16: 325–363.
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 Craspedia viscosa Colenso] [Not Threatened]
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 Craspedia viscosa Colenso] [Not Threatened]
Kirk,T. 1899: The Students' Flora of New Zealand and the Outlying Islands. Government Printer, Wellington, N.Z.