Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Asterales Link
Family
Compositae Giseke
Genus
Dolichoglottis B.Nord.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Dolichoglottis lyallii (Hook.f.) B.Nord., Opera Bot. 44: 36 (1978)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Senecio lyallii Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 146 (1853)
 Description

Plant up to 5 dm. tall; stock stout, invested with remains of lf-bases. Stems slender to rather stout, simple, lfy, glandular-pubescent above, terminated by broad corymb. Lvs entire, glab. or nearly so, rather fleshy; basal up to 25 × 1 cm., linear to linear-lanceolate, acuminate, narrowed above sheathing villous bases; cauline smaller, sessile, subamplexicaul; lower bracts lflike, upper linear. Capitula ∞ on glandular peduncles up to 1 dm. long; c. 4–5 cm. diam. with yellow ligules up to 2.5 cm. long. Phyll. glandular on back, linear-lanceolate, acuminate. Achenes linear, 4–5 mm. long, ribbed, ± pubescent-pilose; pappus-hairs barbellate, stiff, up to 7 mm. long.

[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1 as Senecio lyallii Hook.f.]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 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. [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. [Not Threatened]
Hooker, J.D. 1852–1853 ("1853"): The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H.M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror in the Years 1839–1843, under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross. II. Flora Novae-Zelandiae. Part I. Flowering plants. Lovell Reeve, London.
Nordenstam, B. 1978: Taxonomic studies in the tribe Senecioneae (Compositae). Opera Botanica 44: 1–83.