Class
Order
Family
Genus
Classification
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Celmisia bonplandii (Buchanan) Allan, Fl. New Zealand 1, 624 (1961)
Synonymy:
- ≡ Erigeron bonplandii Buchanan, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 19: 213 (1886 [1887])
Type: New Zealand. South Island, Bold Peak, 4500’, 25 Dec 1927, H.H. Allan s.n. (neotype CHR 6301 designated by Allan 1961: 625)
Description
Stout, us. sparingly branched low-growing subshrub forming loose patches up to ± 5 dm. diam.; branches long-clad in reflexed Ivs; living Ivs viscid, in ± rosulate tufts at tips of branchlets. Lamina coriac., (4)–6–10 × (1·5)–2–3 cm., elliptic-obovate to elliptic-oblong to obovate; upper surface glab., ± lustrous, midrib ± evident; lower surface clad in closely appressed white satiny tomentum, midrib dark, prominent. Apex subacute to obtuse, sts apiculate; margins sinuate, sts distantly denticulate, cuneately narrowed to broad petiole up to c. 10 mm. long. Sheath submembr., glab., 2–3 × 1·5–2 cm., veins prominent. Scape rather stout, ± compressed, glab. or nearly so, ± glandular, ± 15–30 cm. long. Bracts several, linear-subulate, lowermost up to c. 25 mm. long, ± floccose at junction with sheath. Capitula c. 3–5 cm. diam.; phyll. Up to c. 11 mm. long, thin, pale, glab. or nearly so in lower half, pilose and ciliate in upper half, glandular towards apex. Ray-florets linear, up to c. 15 mm. long, widening to 5-toothed apex; disk-florets 7–8 mm. long, ± cylindric, widening to 5-toothed mouth. Anthers without tails. Achenes cylindric, 2.5–3 mm. long, with sparse hairs on ribs, sts papillose. Pappus-hairs sordid-white, slender, ± 6·5 mm. long, very obscurely barbellate.
[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1.]
Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
Bibliography
Buchanan, J. 1887 ("1886"): On some New Native Plants. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 19: 213–216.
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]
Saldivia, P. 2023: Nomenclature and typifications in Celmisia (Asteraceae: Astereae): The New Zealand endemic subgenera Caespitosae, Glandulosae, and Lignosae. Phytotaxa 591(1): 31–45.
