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Classification
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Celmisia rupestris Cheeseman, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 16: 409 (1884)
Synonymy:
Type: New Zealand. South Island, Ravines on Mt Peel, Nelson, alt. 5000 ft., Jan 1881, T.F. Cheeseman s.n. (lectotype AK 9696 designated by Saldivia 2023)
Description
Prostrate or straggling shrub with stems up to ± 1 m. long and 10 mm. diam., branched; branchlets rather slender to stout, up to c. 15 cm. long. Lvs ∞, densely imbricate; lamina (10)–20–(25) × 2.5–3 mm., narrowly linear-spathulate, coriac., gradually narrowed to sheath; upper surface rather densely clad in soft white not appressed hairs, midrib concealed by hairs; lower surface similarly clad, but more densely so; apex obtuse to subacute, us. apiculate; margins strongly revolute, but not to midrib. Sheath broad, membr., hairy. Scape glandular-pubescent, slender, up to ± 15 cm. long; bracts ∞, lower lflike, lamina ± 10 mm. long expanding into sheath. Capitula ± 25 mm. diam.; phyll. several, narrow-linear, c. 5 mm. long, glandular-pubescent, ± clad in floccose hairs Ray-florets many, narrow, clawed, limb ± 6 mm. long; disk-florets ± 4 mm. long, tubular. Achenes subcylindric, 2–2.5 mm. long, ribs with rather sparse hairs. Pappus-hairs sordid-white, up to c. 5 mm. long.
[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1.]
Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
Bibliography
Cheeseman, T.F. 1884: Additions to the New Zealand Flora. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 16: 409–413.
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.; 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.
