Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Asterales Link
Family
Compositae Giseke
Genus
Brachyglottis J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
 Subordinate Taxa
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Brachyglottis kirkii (Hook.f. ex Kirk) C.J.Webb in Connor & Edgar, New Zealand J. Bot. 25: 150 (1987)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Senecio glastifolius Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 147, t. 39 (1852) nom. illeg., non Senecio glastifolius L.f. 1782
  • ≡ Senecio kirkii Hook.f. ex Kirk, Stud. Fl. New Zealand 344 (1899) nom. nov. pro Senecio glastifolius Hook.f. 1852 (non Senecio glastifolius L.f. 1782)
  • ≡ Urostemon kirkii (Hook.f. ex Kirk) B.Nord., Opera Bot. 44: 33 (1978)
  • = Solidago arborescens A.Cunn., Ann. Nat. Hist. 2: 126 (1839) nom. illeg., non Solidago arborescens G.Forst. 1786
  • = Senecio neo-zeylandicus Druce, Bot. Soc. Exch. Club Brit. Isles 4 Suppl.: 646 (1917)
Vernacular Name(s):
Forest tree groundsel; Kirk's daisy; Kohuhurangi; Kohukohurangi; Kohurangi; Kōkohurangi; Orōro; Tapairu
 Description

Glab. shrub up to 3 m. tall; branches brittle. Lvs 4–10×2–4 cm., on petioles c. 1 cm. long, rather fleshy, narrowly to broadly obovate-cuneate to elliptic-oblong in outline, coarsely and irregularly sinuate-dentate to sinuate and subentire. Corymbs up to 30 cm. diam. or more, lower bracts foliaceous; capitula campanulate, up to 5 cm. diam.; phyll. narrow-oblong, acute, membr. on margins. Ray-florets few, with white spreading ligules 2–3 cm. long. Achenes linear, c. 6 mm. long, finely grooved; pappus-hairs stiff, up to 9 mm. long, minutely barbellate.

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

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
Number of subspecific taxa in New Zealand within Brachyglottis kirkii (Hook.f. ex Kirk) C.J.Webb
CategoryNumber
Indigenous (Endemic)2
Total2
 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.
Cunningham, A. 1839: Florae insularum Novae Zelandiae precursor; or a specimen of the botany of the islands of New Zealand. Annals of Natural History 2: 125–132.
Druce, G. C. 1917 ("1916"): Nomenclatural Notes: Chiefly African and Australian. Report / Botanical Society and Exchange Club of the British Isles for 1916, 4 Suppl.: 601–653.
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.
Howell, C. 2008: Consolidated list of environmental weeds in New Zealand. DOC Research & Development Series 292: 42. [as Senecio glastifolius Hook.f.]
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.