Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Asterales Link
Family
Compositae Giseke
Genus
Brachyglottis J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Brachyglottis stewartiae (J.B.Armstr.) B.Nord., Opera Bot. 44: 30 (1978)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Senecio stewartiae J.B.Armstr., Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 13: 339 (1880 [1881]) – as Senecio stewartiæ
  • = Senecio muelleri Kirk, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 15: 359-360 (1883)
Vernacular Name(s):
stewart island tree groundsel
 Description

Shrub or tree up to 6 m. or more tall, with spreading stout branchlets, clad in persistent lf-bases. Lvs close-set, subcoriac., 7–18 × 2–4 cm., ovate- to elliptic-lanceolate, acute to acuminate, narrowed to broad appressed base, glab. above, clad below in appressed thin white tomentum; veinlets becoming evident and glab. when old. Infl. terminal in short dense panicles; pedicels densely glandular-pubescent, upper bracts linear. Capitula up to 2 cm. diam.; phyll. narrow-oblong, obtuse, glandular-pubescent on backs; ray-florets 10–15, ligules yellow, narrow, contorted. Achenes c. 2 mm. long, narrow-oblong, grooved, sparsely pubescent, becoming glab.; pappus-hairs up to 5 mm. long, barbellate.

[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1 as Senecio stewartiae J.B.Armstr.]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Bibliography
Armstrong, J.B. 1881: Descriptions of new and rare New Zealand plants. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 13: 335–343.
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.; Norton, D.A.; Courtney, S.P.; Heenan, P.B.; Barkla, J.W.; Cameron, E.K.; Hitchmough, R.; Townsend, A.J. 2009: Threatened and uncommon plants of New Zealand (2008 revision). New Zealand Journal of Botany 47: 61–96. [Naturally uncommon]
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.
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. [Naturally Uncommon]
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. [Naturally Uncommon]
Kirk, T. 1883 ("1882"): Description of a new species of Senecio. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 15: 359–360.
Nordenstam, B. 1978: Taxonomic studies in the tribe Senecioneae (Compositae). Opera Botanica 44: 1–83.