Class
Order
Family
Genus
Classification
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Celmisia laricifolia Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part II, 331 (1855)
Vernacular Name(s):
Needle-leaved mountain daisy
Description
Small slender branched subshrub up to c. 15 cm. tall; branches slender, diverging, clad in lf-remains; branchlets densely clad in imbricate, ascending, finally recurved, lvs. Lamina very narrow-linear, ± 10–15–(20) × 1–1·5 mm., subcoriac.; upper surface with a delicate deciduous pellicle, lower clad in a very thin white appressed tomentum; apex produced into a delicate acicular point c. 2 mm. long, easily broken off; margin recurved nearly or quite to midrib; base slightly narrowed to pale scarious ± pilose sheath ± 8 × 1–1·5 mm. Scape ± 5–10 cm. long, very slender to almost filiform, ± clad in loose floccose deciduous hairs; bracts few, narrow-subulate, minute, sts absent. Capitula c. 1–2 cm. diam.; phyll. subulate to linear-lanceolate, erect, membr., c. 7 mm. long. Ray-florets several, prominent, up to c. 12 mm. long, limb gradually widening to apex; disk-florets funnelform to campanulate, hardly > 5 mm. long. Achenes slender, compressed-cylindric, ± 3 mm. long, clad in ascending stiff hairs; pappus-hairs white, up to 4·5 mm. long, very minutely 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. 1854–1855: The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H.M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror, in the years 1839–1843, under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross. II. Flora Novae-Zelandiae. Part II. Flowerless plants. Lovell Reeve, London.
