Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Asterales Link
Family
Compositae Giseke
 Subordinate Taxa
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Centipeda Lour., Fl. Cochinch. 492 (1790)
Type Taxon:
Centipeda minima (L.) A.Braun & Asch.
 Description

Annual or perennial herbs, taprooted and sometimes rooting at nodes. Lvs simple, entire or toothed, alternate. Capitula axillary or terminal, sessile or shortly pedunculate; involucral bracts in 2 rows, with membranous margins. Receptacle hemispheric; scales 0. Outer florets ♀, in several rows, tubular, yellowish; inner florets ☿, tubular. Achenes all similar, obpyramidal, square in section, distinctly 4-ribbed, with scattered glandular hairs on faces; ribs blunt, hairy; pappus 0.

[From: Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4.]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Non-endemic)
Number of species in New Zealand within Centipeda Lour.
CategoryNumber
Indigenous (Endemic)1
Indigenous (Non-endemic)3
Total4
 Bibliography
Loureiro, J. de 1790: Flora Cochinchinensis: sistens plantas in regno Cochinchina nascentes. Quibus accedunt aliæ observatæ in Sinensi imperio, Africa Orientali, Indiæque locis variis. Omnes dispositæ secundum systema sexuale Linnæanum. Ulyssipone (Lisbon).
Mabberley, D.J. 2008: Mabberley's plant book, a portable dictionary of plants, their classification and uses. Edition 3. Cambridge University Press.
Walsh, N. G. 2001: A revision of Centipeda (Asteraceae). Muelleria 15: 33–64.