Class
Order
Family
Classification
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Brachyglottis sciadophila (Raoul) B.Nord., Opera Bot. 44: 30 (1978)
Synonymy:
- ≡ Senecio sciadophilus Raoul, Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot. sér. 3, 2: 119 (1844)
Description
Liane with softly wooded stems up to 5 m. long (occ. creeping on forest floor or forming tangled masses), branches slender, flexuous, striate, pubescent; branchlets pubescent, often drooping. Lvs rather distant on slender petioles up to 2cm. long or more; lamina 1·5–3×1·5–3 cm., orbicular to broad ovate-orbicular in outline, membr., coarsely and acutely dentate, sparsely scaberulous to glab. on both surfaces. Capitula < 1 cm. diam. in axillary and terminal small open panicles, pedicels densely pubescent; phyll. 6–8, linear-oblong, subacute, pubescent on back, margins scarious. Ray-florets not > 10, with yellow spreading ligules c. 6 mm. long; disk-florets up to 10. Achenes compressed, striate, 1–1×5 mm. long, hispidulous, becoming nearly glab.; pappus-hairs up to 4 mm. long, rather rigid, very finely barbellate.
[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1 as Senecio sciadophilus Raoul]
Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
Bibliography
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de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A.; Heenan, P.B.; Courtney, S.P.; Molloy, B.P.J.; Ogle, C.C.; Rance, B.D. 2004: Threatened and uncommon plants of New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 42(1): 45–76.
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