Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Asterales Link
Family
Compositae Giseke
Genus
Pachystegia Cheeseman
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Pachystegia minor (Cheeseman) Molloy in Connor & Edgar, New Zealand J. Bot. 25: 144 (1987)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Olearia insignis var. minor Cheeseman, Trans. & Proc. Roy. Soc. New Zealand 48: 210-211 (1916)
  • ≡ Pachystegia insignis var. minor (Cheeseman) Cheeseman, Man. New Zealand Fl., ed. 2, 911 (1925)
Lectotype (or perhaps holotype). Dwarf form, found by the late H. J. Matthews on road to Blenheim from Christchurch, n.d. (AK 9396)
 Description

Much smaller and more slender; lvs c. 6·5–10 × 2.5–4 cm. including petiole; tomentum thinner; peduncles slender, c. 10 cm. long; capitula not > 3·5 cm. diam.

[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1 as Pachystegia insignis var. minor Cheeseman]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Bibliography
Cheeseman, T.F. 1916: New species of plants. Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand 48: 210–215.
Cheeseman, T.F. 1925: Manual of the New Zealand Flora. Edition 2. Government Printer, Wellington.
Connor, H.E.; Edgar, E. 1987: Name changes in the indigenous New Zealand flora, 1960–1986 and Nomina Nova IV, 1983–1986. New Zealand Journal of Botany 25: 115–170.
de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A.; Courtney, S.P.; Heenan, P.B.; Barkla, J.W.; Cameron, E.K.; Hitchmough, R.; Townsend, A.J. 2009: Threatened and uncommon plants of New Zealand (2008 revision). New Zealand Journal of Botany 47: 61–96. [Naturally uncommon]
de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A.; Heenan, P.B.; Courtney, S.P.; Molloy, B.P.J.; Ogle, C.C.; Rance, B.D. 2004: Threatened and uncommon plants of New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 42(1): 45–76.
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. [Naturally Uncommon]
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. [Naturally Uncommon]
Heenan, P.B.; Molloy, B.P.J. 2023: Recognition of Pachystegia hesperia sp. nov. and notes on P. insignis, P. minor and P. rufa (Asteraceae: Astereae). New Zealand Journal of Botany 61(2-3): 158–176. (Published online: 2022 (https://doi.org/10.1080/0028825X.2022.2107939))