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Classification
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Leptinella pectinata subsp. villosa (G.Simpson) D.G.Lloyd & C.J.Webb, New Zealand J. Bot. 25: 103 (1987)
Synonymy:
- ≡ Cotula villosa G.Simpson, Trans. Roy. Soc. New Zealand 79: 434 (1952)
- ≡ Cotula pectinata subsp. villosa (G.Simpson) D.G.Lloyd, New Zealand J. Bot. 10: 356 (1972)
Description
Rather stout herb, creeping, rooting; all parts ± clad in long greyish hairs; branches us. short, stout. Lvs ± fascicled or close-set; lamina of narrow-obovate order, somewhat fleshy, densely clad in appressed to spreading long hairs, (1·5)–2.5–3·5–4 cm. × 5–7 mm., suboppositely pinnatisect to pinnate, costa winged; pinnae c. 5 pairs, obovate-cuneate, subacute, entire or occ. with 1–2 minute apical teeth, to 5 × 1·75 mm. Scape very slender, clad in dense short ascending hairs, (1·5)–3–6 cm. long, nude or with 1 minute bract. Capitula (5)–6–8–(10) mm. diam.; receptacle slightly convex. Phyll. in 2–3 series, obovate-oblong to oblong-lanceolate, 2.5–3·75 mm. long, purple and scarious at apex, veins ± evident. ♀ in 1–2 series, tubular, bluntly 4-lobed; ♂ funnelform, lobes 4, triangular. Achenes obovoid-compressed, ribbed, minutely glandular-pubescent, 1–2 mm. long.
[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1 as Cotula villosa G.Simpson]
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]
Lloyd, D.G. 1972: A revision of the New Zealand, Subantarctic, and South American species of Cotula, section Leptinella. New Zealand Journal of Botany 10: 277–372.
Lloyd, D.G.; Webb, C. J. 1987: The reinstatement of Leptinella at generic rank, and the status of the 'Cotuleae' (Asteraceae, Anthemideae). New Zealand Journal of Botany 25: 99–105.
Simpson, G. 1952: Notes on some New Zealand plants and descriptions of new species (No. 5). Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand 79: 419–435.
