Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Asterales Link
Family
Compositae Giseke
Genus
Brachyglottis J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Brachyglottis bidwillii (Hook.f.) B.Nord., Opera Bot. 44: 29 (1978)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Senecio bidwillii Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 150 (1852)
Type collections:'Mount Hikurangi and Ruahine range, Colenso. Mountains near Nelson, alt. 6000 feet, Bidwill'. Lectotype (designated by Allan 1961, p. 756): Hikurangi, Colenso 202 (K000844034).
  • = Senecio viridis Kirk, Stud. Fl. New Zealand 350 (1899) nom. illeg., non Senecio viridis Phil. 1891
  • ≡ Senecio bidwillii var. viridis Cheeseman, Man. New Zealand Fl. 383 (1906)
  • ≡ Brachyglottis bidwillii var. viridis (Kirk) B.Nord., Opera Bot. 44: 29 (1978)
Type collections: 'mountains of Nelson and Marlborough, Bidwill, Rough Discovery Peaks, Travers Amuri, T. K. Canterbury: Bealey River, Arthur’s Pass, and other localities in North Canterbury, T. K. 2,300 ft. to 5,000ft’. Lectotype (designated by Heenan 2023): Arthur’s Pass, 24 January 1876, Thomas Kirk s.n. (WELT SP031243)
 Description

Compactly branched shrub up to 1 m. tall; branches stout; branchlets, petioles and infl.-branchlets clad in dense appressed soft white to buff tomentum. Lvs elliptic- to obovate-oblong, very coriac., 2–2.5 × 1–1·5 cm., on stout petioles falling to leave prominent lf-bases, glab. and shining above, clad in dense appressed soft tomentum below, midrib and veins not prominent below. Panicles subcorymbose, up to 5 cm. diam.; capitula discoid, campanulate, up to 1·5 cm. diam.; phyll. narrow-oblong, coriac., subacute, tomentose on back. ♀ 3–5; disk-florets ∞, deeply 5-lobed. Achenes linear-oblong, 3 mm. long, ribbed, glab.; pappus-hairs stiff, white, up to 5 mm. long, barbellate.

[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1 as Senecio bidwillii Hook.f.]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Bibliography
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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]
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Kirk,T. 1899: The Students' Flora of New Zealand and the Outlying Islands. Government Printer, Wellington, N.Z.
Nordenstam, B. 1978: Taxonomic studies in the tribe Senecioneae (Compositae). Opera Botanica 44: 1–83.