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Classification
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Celmisia gibbsii Cheeseman, Man. New Zealand Fl. 300 (1906)
Synonymy:
Type: New Zealand. South Island, Nelson-Mt Cobb (to the north of the Mt Arthur Plateau), F.G. Gibbs s.n. (lectotype AK 9692 designated by Allan 1961: 618).
Description
Rather small subshrub with sparingly branched woody stems. Lvs ∞, closely imbricate along ascending branchlets. Lamina 10–15–(20) × 2–3·5 mm., spreading from sheathing base, finally reflexed, linear-lanceolate, coriac., midrib impressed above, prominent below; upper surface glab., rather pale green; lower surface with rather sparse minute deciduous scurfy scales; apex thickened, obtuse to subacute; base hardly widened to membr. sheath bearing scurfy scales; margins thick, revolute almost to midrib. Scape ± 4–5–(6) cm. long, slender, sparsely clad in scurfy scales; bracts ∞, lamina linear-oblong, ± 4 mm. long, sheath ± 3 mm. long, appressed. Capitula 2–2.5 cm. diam.; phyll. narrow-oblong, obtuse to subacute, ascending to patent, sts with tuft of hairs at tip, widened at base, up to c. 7 mm. long. Ray-florets ∞, elliptic-oblong, 3–5-toothed, up to 15 mm. long, bearing a few appressed hairs. Disk-florets tubular-funnelform, up to ± 6 mm. long. Achenes c. 2 mm. long, narrow-cylindric, ribs with sparse stiff hairs. Pappus-hairs white, up to 5·5 mm. long, very finely barbellate.
[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1.]
Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
Bibliography
Cheeseman, T.F. 1906: Manual of the New Zealand Flora. Government Printer, Wellington.
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]
Saldivia, P. 2023: Nomenclature and typifications in Celmisia (Asteraceae: Astereae): The New Zealand endemic subgenera Caespitosae, Glandulosae, and Lignosae. Phytotaxa 591(1): 31–45.
