Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Asterales Link
Family
Compositae Giseke
Genus
Celmisia Cass.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Celmisia bellidioides Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 135 (1864)
Synonymy:
Type: New Zealand. Middle [South] Island, Tarndale, in loose shingle, 5000 ft., Feb 1861, Sinclair 8 in Herbarium Hookerianum (holotype K 882169)
Vernacular Name(s):
Green cushion mountain daisy
 Description

Creeping much-branched mat-forming herb; main stems slender to rather stout, slightly woody at base; branches much-divided, prostrate, rooting, clad in lf-remains; branchlets clad at apex in close rosettes of spreading living lvs. Lamina subcoriac., almost fleshy, glab., narrowly obovate-oblong to oblong to spathulate, (7)–8–12–(15) × 3–4–(6) mm.; upper surface dark green, glossy; lower paler; midrib impressed above, prominent below. Apex rounded; margins entire or sts obscurely toothed, narrowed to ± floccose sheath c. 5 mm. long. Scape slender, up to ± 5 cm. long, glab. or with sparse white hairs; bracts ∞, narrow-linear, obtuse to subacute, lower up to c. 1 cm. long. Capitula ± 20 mm. diam.; phyll. green, sts becoming pale, linear- to lanceolate-oblong, glab., thin, up to 10 mm. long. Ray-florets us. ∞, ± 11 mm. long; tube very slender, occ. with sparse hairs; limb narrow-obovate. Disk-florets narrow-funnelform, c. 6 mm. long; teeth minute, triangular. Achenes compressed-cylindric, ribbed, 3–4 mm. long, ± densely clad in short ascending silky hairs. Pappus-hairs up to 5 mm. long, slender, white to rufous, very finely or hardly barbellate.

[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1.]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Bibliography
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]
Hooker, J.D. 1864: Handbook of the New Zealand Flora: a systematic description of the native plants of New Zealand and the Chatham, Kermadec's, Lord Auckland's, Campbell's and Macquarie's Islands. Part I. Reeve, London.
Saldivia, P. 2023: Nomenclature and typifications in Celmisia (Asteraceae: Astereae): The New Zealand endemic subgenera Caespitosae, Glandulosae, and Lignosae. Phytotaxa 591(1): 31–45.