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- ≡ Gnaphalium americanum Mill., Gard. Dict., ed. 8. (unpaged) (1768)
- = Gnaphalium spicatum Lam., Encycl. [J. Lamarck & al.] 2, 757 (1786) nom. illeg., non Gnaphalium spicatum Mill. 1768
- ≡ Gnaphalium coarctatum Willd., Sp. Pl., ed. 4 [Willdenow] 3(3), 1886 (1803) nom. nov. pro Gnaphalium spicatum Lam. 1786
- ≡ Gamochaeta spicata (Lam.) Cabrera, Bol. Soc. Argent. Bot. 9: 380 (1961) nom. illeg.
- ≡ Gamochaeta coarctata (Willd.) Kerg., Lejeunia 120: 104 (1987)
- = Gnaphalium purpureum var. spicatum Klatt, Linnaea 42: 140 (1878)
Annual or biennial, 10–30 cm tall, usually branched only at base; stems 1-several, erect or ascending. Basal lvs usually present at flowering, sometimes dead but persistent, apetiolate, elliptic-oblong to spathulate, 25–70 mm long. Lower cauline lvs apetiolate, densely white-tomentose on lower surface, usually glabrous but sometimes with a few hairs on upper, discolorous, plane, narrow-spathulate to almost linear, obtuse to acute, shortly mucronate, usually flat, sometimes undulate, 20–35 × 2–8 mm; uppermost cauline lvs smaller, often folded, undulate and linear. Capitula in dense terminal and axillary clusters; clusters forming a dense terminal spike and sometimes scattered below. Involucral bracts oblong, apiculate, 3.5–4.2 mm long; stereome green or reddish purple; lamina pale brown, usually with darker markings toward base; gap and margins clear; outer bracts glabrous. Achenes minutely papillate, c. 0.6 mm long.
[From: Webb et al. (1985) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4 as Gnaphalium americanum Mill.]