Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Asterales Link
Family
Compositae Giseke
Genus
Brachyglottis J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
 Subordinate Taxa
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Brachyglottis monroi (Hook.f.) B.Nord., Opera Bot. 44: 29 (1978)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Senecio monroi Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part II, 333 (1855)
 Description

Much-branched shrub up to 1 m. tall; final branchlets compactly arranged, tomentose, produced into slender peduncles with foliaceous bracts bearing solitary to racemed (rarely > 3) capitula on slender bracted glandular-pubescent pedicels, us. so massed as to produced a pseudo-corymb. Lvs close-set, coriac.; lamina 2–4 cm. × 5–15 mm., narrow- to obovate-oblong, obtuse, narrowed into slender tomentose channelled petiole up to 2 cm. long; margins distinctly crenate and us. waved; glab. brownish green above, below clad in closely appressed white tomentum; midrib us. distinct. Capitula up to 2 cm. diam.; phyll. linear to linear-spathulate, acute, glandular-pubescent on back, inner with scarious tips. Ray-florets 10–15; ligules yellow, broad, spreading to recurved. Achenes 3·5 mm. long, compressed, finely grooved, hispidulous; pappus-hairs slender, up to 6 mm. long, very finely barbellate.

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

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
Number of subspecific taxa in New Zealand within Brachyglottis monroi (Hook.f.) B.Nord.
CategoryNumber
Indigenous (Endemic)2
Total2
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