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Classification
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Celmisia glabrescens Petrie, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 47: 50 (1915)
Synonymy:
Type: New Zealand. Steward Island, Meadow near Freshwater River, 100 ft., D.L. Poppelwell s.n. (lectotype WELT SP2145 designated by Allan 1961: 630; isolectotype WELT SP2145B)
Description
Tufted herb with rosulate lvs, extending by lfy stolons producing offset tufts. Lamina submembr., ± 5–7 × 1–1·5–(2) cm., narrow lanceolate- to obovate-spathulate; glab. above, clad in thin greyish tomentum below with midrib evident; acute, apiculate; margins sinuate, finely serrate, cuneately narrowed to almost linear petiole up to 15 mm. long, suddenly expanded into subcoriac., glab., strongly veined sheath ± 15–20 × 7 mm. Scape rather slender, c. 15–30 cm. long, glab. or nearly so, slightly flattened and finely grooved, ± viscid. Bracts rather few, distant; lamina linear, acute, with prominent midvein. Capitula ± 25–40 mm. diam.; phyll. linear-subulate, viscid, outer reflexed, inner erect, ciliate, hairy at tips, ± 12 mm. long. Ray-florets to c. 20 mm. long, linear, spreading; disk-florets 6·5–7 mm. long, narrow-tubular, teeth minute, triangular. Achenes compressed-cylindric, c. 4 mm. long; grooves evident, clad on ribs in appressed silky hairs. Pappus-hairs very slender, sordid-white, up to 7 mm. long, hardly barbellate.
[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1.]
Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
Bibliography
Petrie, D. 1915: Descriptions of New Native Phanerogams, with other Short Notices. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 47: 48–59.
Saldivia, P. 2023: Nomenclature and typifications in Celmisia (Asteraceae: Astereae): The New Zealand endemic subgenera Caespitosae, Glandulosae, and Lignosae. Phytotaxa 591(1): 31–45.
