Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Asterales Link
Family
Compositae Giseke
Genus
Brachyglottis J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Brachyglottis greyi (Hook.f.) B.Nord., Opera Bot. 44: 29 (1978)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Senecio greyi Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 148, t. 38 (1852)
 Description

Spreading shrub up to c. 2 m. tall, with stout branches; branchlets and petioles densely clad in soft white tomentum. Lvs rather distant; lamina 4–8 × 2.5–4·5 cm., coriac., oblong to ovate-oblong, obtuse, rounded to obliquely shallowly cordate at base, entire to shallowly sinuate; upper surface of very young lvs white-tomentose, of mature lvs glab. and shining except on margins; lower surface densely clad in soft white tomentum, midrib prominent; petiole 1·5–4 cm. long, rather stout, channelled above. Infl. of ∞ terminal bracted branches; branchlets and pedicels densely glandular-pubescent, bracts foliaceous. Capitula up to 3 cm. diam., in large corymbs; phyll. 12–16, lanceolate-oblong, acute to subacute, glandular-pubescent on back. Ray-florets c. 15; ligules bright yellow, broad, spreading, c. 1 cm. long; achenes c. 1·5 mm. long, narrow-oblong, grooved, densely to sparsely scabridulous; pappus-hairs rather scanty, up to 4 mm. long, slender, finely barbellate.

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

 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.; 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]
Hooker, J.D. 1852–1853 ("1853"): The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H.M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror in the Years 1839–1843, under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross. II. Flora Novae-Zelandiae. Part I. Flowering plants. Lovell Reeve, London.
Nordenstam, B. 1978: Taxonomic studies in the tribe Senecioneae (Compositae). Opera Botanica 44: 1–83.