Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Asterales Link
Family
Compositae Giseke
Genus
Senecio L.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Senecio radiolatus subsp. antipodus (Kirk) C.J.Webb in Connor & Edgar, New Zealand J. Bot. 25: 148 (1987)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Senecio antipodus Kirk, Stud. Fl. New Zealand 341 (1899)
 Description

Annual or biennial herb up to 60 cm. tall; main stem erect, fistular, up to 15 mm. diam.; branches fistular, spreading, grooved. Lvs sub-succulent, glab. above, cobwebby below, 5–14 × 2.5–7·5 cm.; basal lvs petiolate; upper sessile by broad amplexicaul auricled bases, deeply and irregularly pinnatifid, segs up to 5 × 2 cm., toothed or lobed; uppermost with narrower segs. Capitula ∞, up to 15 mm. diam., on slender bracteolate pedicels in corymbs; phyll. c. 20, oblong-lanceolate, acute, 2-ribbed, margins scarious. Florets all perfect, funnelform. Achenes 2 mm. long, linear-oblong, grooved, minutely puberulous becoming nearly glab.; pappus-hairs very slender, finely barbellate, up to 5·5 mm. long.

[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1 as Senecio antipodus Kirk]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Bibliography
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]
Kirk,T. 1899: The Students' Flora of New Zealand and the Outlying Islands. Government Printer, Wellington, N.Z.