Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Asterales Link
Family
Compositae Giseke
Genus
Haastia Hook.f.
 Subordinate Taxa
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Haastia pulvinaris Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 156 (1864)
Vernacular Name(s):
Vegetable sheep
 Description

Plant forming rounded masses up to 2 m. diam.; branchlets with lvs c. 2 cm. diam., very densely compacted. Lvs c. 8–10 × 6–10 mm.; tip thickened and crenulate and concealed by dense brush of long tangled slightly fulvous hairs, both surfaces or abaxial only clad in long hairs; veins 3–15, anastomosing above. Receptacle flat or slightly convex, c. 5 mm. diam. Phyll. linear, obtuse to acute, glab. except at tips. Achenes compressed, linear, c. 2 mm. long. Pappus-hairs flattened at base, up to 9 mm. long.

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

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
Number of subspecific taxa in New Zealand within Haastia pulvinaris Hook.f.
CategoryNumber
Indigenous (Endemic)2
Total2
 Phenology

Fruiting: Dec.–Mar.

 Bibliography
Hooker, J.D. 1864: 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 Macquarie's Islands. Part I. Reeve, London.