Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Asterales Link
Family
Compositae Giseke
 Subordinate Taxa
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Vittadinia A.Rich., Essai Fl. Nouv.-Zél., 251 (1832)
 Description

Annual or perennial herbs or subshrubs. Lvs alternate, simple, entire to lobed and again toothed. Capitula solitary. Involucral bracts in several rows, imbricate, the outer somewhat herbaceous, the inner partly membranous. Receptacle flat to convex; scales 0. Outer florets ♀, ligulate, in 1-several rows; ligules white or pinkish to bluish purple. Inner florets ☿, tubular, often fewer than ♀. Achenes all similar, obovate, oblanceolate, cuneate, or obconic, usually compressed, rarely terete, hairy, with or without facial ribs; pappus of scabrid hairs in 1-several rows.

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

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Non-endemic)
Number of species in New Zealand within Vittadinia A.Rich.
CategoryNumber
Indigenous (Endemic)1
Exotic: Fully Naturalised2
Exotic: Casual2
Total5
 Bibliography
Mabberley, D.J. 2008: Mabberley's plant book, a portable dictionary of plants, their classification and uses. Edition 3. Cambridge University Press.
Richard, A. 1832: Essai d'une Flore de la Nouvelle Zélande. In: Dumont d'Urville, J. Voyage de découvertes de l'Astrolabe. Botanique. Tastu, Paris.