Classification
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Hypochaeris L., Sp. Pl. (1753) – as Hypochoeris
 Description

Annual to perennial taprooted rosette herbs. Hairs simple, eglandular, or 0. Stems usually branching, sometimes scapose. Lvs usually all basal, simple, toothed to pinnatifid; cauline lvs usually reduced to small narrowly triangular bracts, sometimes similar to basal and amplexicaul. Capitula solitary or several per stem, on long peduncles. Involucral bracts in 1-several indistinct series, glabrous or with a few hairs; outer bracts < inner. Receptacle areolate, with long scarious scales, glabrous. Corolla ligulate, yellow, often with pink or green stripe on outer face. Style branches filiform, yellow. Achenes numerous, brownish, obconic to fusiform, ribbed, scabrid, either all beaked or the inner beaked and the outer not beaked; pappus rarely of scales, usually of bristles in (1)–2 rows, sordid or white; the outer bristles short, scabrid to plumose, rarely 0; the inner bristles longer, usually plumose.

[From: Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4.]

 Biostatus
Exotic
Number of species in New Zealand within Hypochaeris L.
CategoryNumber
Exotic: Fully Naturalised2
Exotic: Casual1
Total3
 Bibliography
Linnaeus, C. 1753: Species Plantarum. Impensis Laurentii Salvii, Stockholm.
Mabberley, D.J. 2008: Mabberley's plant book, a portable dictionary of plants, their classification and uses. Edition 3. Cambridge University Press.
Steel, J.B.; Wilson, J.B.: 'Hypochoeris'/ 'Hypochaeris': New Zealand usage is wrong and the rest of the world is right . Botanical Society of Otago Newsletter 37: 5–7.