Class
Order
Family
Genus
Classification
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Celmisia prorepens Petrie, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 19: 326 (1887)
Synonymy:
Type: New Zealand. South Island, Old Man Range, Otago, 4,500 feet, D. Petrie s.n. (lectotype AK 9762 designated by Saldivia 2023)
Description
Herb with stout, much-branched stock clad in lf-remains, branches creeping, rooting at nodes, living lvs in close rosettes at tips of branchlets; plant viscid, forming patches up to ± 1 m. diam. Lamina subcoriac., ± 35–50–(80) × 12–15–(25) mm.; elliptic- to obovate-oblong; both surfaces strongly longitudinally wrinkled, upper glab. or nearly so, lower with very thin deciduous pellicle and distinct ± pilose midrib. Apex subacute; margins coarsely serrate, slightly recurved; base narrowed to flat petiole ± 10 mm. long. Sheath submembr., strongly striate, very viscid. Scape up to c. 20 cm. long, rather stout, angled, viscid, and with a few hairs; bracts ∞, broadly subulate, lower with lamina up to c. 25 mm. long. Capitula (2)–3–(4) cm. diam.; phyll. scarious, viscid, linear, up to ± 12 mm. long, crowned by tuft of floccose hairs. Ray-florets c. 15–20 mm. long, with very slender tube and narrow-oblong limb; disk-florets narrow-funnelform, c. 7 mm. long, teeth narrow-triangular. Achenes narrow-cylindric, 2.5–3 mm. long, densely clad in ascending ± deciduous silky hairs on ribs. Pappus-hairs white, becoming rufous, up to 7 mm. long, finely 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]
Petrie, D. 1887 ("1886"): Descriptions of new Native Plants. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 19: 325–326.
Saldivia, P. 2023: Nomenclature and typifications in Celmisia (Asteraceae: Astereae): The New Zealand endemic subgenera Caespitosae, Glandulosae, and Lignosae. Phytotaxa 591(1): 31–45.
