Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Asterales Link
Family
Compositae Giseke
Genus
Brachyglottis J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Brachyglottis lagopus (Raoul) B.Nord., Opera Bot. 44: 31 (1978)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Senecio lagopus Raoul, Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot. sér. 3, 2: 119–120 (1844)
TYPE (fide Raoul 1844). 'Akaroa in Montosis'; LECTOTYPE: P, P01816620
  • = Senecio bellidioides Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 144 (1852)
  • ≡ Brachyglottis bellidioides (Hook.f.) B.Nord., Opera Bot. 44: 30 (1978)
  • = Senecio saxifragoides Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 144 (1852)
  • ≡ Brachyglottis saxifragoides (Hook.f.) B.Nord., Opera Bot. 44: 31 (1978)
Holotype: K, K000036363: Port Cooper, Lyall
  • = Senecio traversii F.Muell., Edinburgh New Philos. J. 14: 158 (1861)
  • ≡ Brachyglottis traversii (F.Muell.) B.Nord., Opera Bot. 44: 31 (1978)
HOLOTYPE: Alps near Nelson, [J. von Haast s.n.] (MEL 47040).
  • = Senecio haastii Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 159 (1864)
  • ≡ Brachyglottis haastii (Hook.f.) B.Nord., Opera Bot. 44: 31 (1978)
LECTOTYPE (fide Allan (1961): 2700 – 4000 ft Mt Cook Canterbury (New Zealand), J. von Haast 682 (K 000036366)
  • = Senecio bellidioides var. angustatus Kirk, Stud. Fl. New Zealand 339 (1899)
  • ≡ Senecio angustatus (Kirk) Cockayne & Sledge, J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 49: 128 (1932)
  • ≡ Brachyglottis bellidioides var. angustata (Kirk) B.Nord., Opera Bot. 44: 30 (1978)
  • = Senecio bellidioides var. glabratus Kirk, Stud. Fl. New Zealand 339 (1899)
TYPE: not given by Kirk
  • = Senecio southlandicus Cockayne, Trans. New Zealand Inst. 47: 118 (1914 [1915])
  • ≡ Brachyglottis southlandica (Cockayne) B.Nord., Opera Bot. 44: 31 (1978)
LECTOTYPE (fide Allan (1961): Gore, Poppelwell s.n. (WELT 605 photo!).
  • = Senecio cochlearis Simpson & J.S.Thomson, Trans. & Proc. Roy. Soc. New Zealand 72: 37 (1942)
HOLOTYPE: G. Simpson & J.S. Thomson s.n., Dec. 1940 (CHR 76007!).
  • = Senecio bellidioides var. orbiculatus Simpson & J.S.Thomson, Trans. & Proc. Roy. Soc. New Zealand 72: 36 (1942)
  • ≡ Brachyglottis bellidioides var. orbiculata (G.Simpson & J.S.Thomson) B.Nord., Opera Bot. 44: 30 (1978)
HOLOTYPE: Garvie Mountains, G. Simpson & J.S. Thomson s.n., Nov. 1938 (CHR 72733!).
  • = Senecio bellidioides var. setosus Simpson & J.S.Thomson, Trans. & Proc. Roy. Soc. New Zealand 72: 37 (1942)
  • ≡ Brachyglottis bellidioides var. setosa (G.Simpson & J.S.Thomson) B.Nord., Opera Bot. 44: 30 (1978)
  • = Senecio bellidioides var. crassus G.Simpson & J.S.Thomson, Trans. & Proc. Roy. Soc. New Zealand 73: 171 (1943)
  • ≡ Brachyglottis bellidioides var. crassa (G.Simpson & J.S.Thomson) B.Nord., Opera Bot. 44: 30 (1978)
HOLOTYPE: Stewart Island, Table Hill, G. Simpson s.n. (CHR 72734!).
  • = Senecio southlandicus var. albidulus Allan, Fl. New Zealand 1, 740, 976 (1961)
  • ≡ Brachyglottis southlandica var. albidula (Allan) B.Nord., Opera Bot. 44: 31 (1978)
HOLOTYPE: Blue Mountains, Whisky Gully, LB M[oore] & LBC[ranwell] s.n. (CHR 24175!).
 Description

Stock stout, clad in brownish silky hairs. Lvs spreading to suberect, elliptic- to ovate-oblong to suborbicular, obtuse, coriac.; lamina ± 2.5–15 × 3–10 cm., obtuse, cordate to obliquely cordate at base; upper surface of young lvs with ∞ slender early-deciduous hairs mingled with hispid ones that remain till old age; lower surface densely clad in soft woolly white long-persistent tomentum; petiole 3–10 cm. long, stout, invested at base with long brownish hairs, and above with soft whitish tomentum with few to ∞ glandular hairs. Scapes simple or branched, up to 35 cm. tall, ± clad in soft tomentum mingled with glandular hairs; bracts few, linear, obtuse. Capitula 2–4 cm. diam., ligules yellow, up to 2 cm. long; phyll. acute, glandular and tomentum on back. Pappus-hairs stiff, barbellate, up to 5 mm. long; achenes c. 5 mm. long, linear.

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

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
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