Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Asterales Link
Family
Compositae Giseke
Genus
Brachyglottis J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Brachyglottis revoluta (Kirk) B.Nord., Opera Bot. 44: 30 (1978)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Senecio revolutus Kirk, Stud. Fl. New Zealand 348 (1899)
  • = Senecio robustus Buchanan, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 6: 243 (1874) nom. illeg., non Senecio robustus Sch.Bip. 1845
 Description

Depressed to suberect shrub, occ. up to 5 dm. tall; main branches decumbent at base; branchlets erect or ascending, densely lfy, ending in erect stout peduncles c. 5 mm. diam., up to 10 cm. long, clad in linear-oblong foliaceous bracts, terminated by subcorymbose infl. Lf-laminae 3–6×2–3 cm., coriac., about elliptic-oblong, obtuse, glab. and rugose above, below clad in pale buff to white appressed viscid tomentum; midrib distinct, margins slightly revolute, crenately sinuate; petioles 1–2 cm. long, flattened, tomentose, widened to a persistent sheathing base. Capitula 5–15, up to 2 cm. diam., closely arranged on tomentose rather stout pedicels; phyll. linear, acute, tomentose and viscid on back. Ray-florets 10–15, ligules yellow, broad, recurved; achenes 3 mm. long, oblong, subcompressed, glab., strongly grooved; pappus-hairs up to 6 mm. long, finely barbellate.

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

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Bibliography
Buchanan, J. 1874: On some new species of New Zealand plants. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 6: 241–244.
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.; 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]
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. [Not Threatened]
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.