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Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Helichrysum parvifolium Yeo, Taxon 19: 946 (1970)
Synonymy:
- ≡ Helichrysum microphyllum (Hook.f.) Benth. & Hook.f. ex Kirk, Gen. Pl. [Bentham & Hooker f.] 2(1), 311 (1873) nom. illeg., non Helichrysum microphyllum (Willd.) Cambess. 1827
- ≡ Ozothamnus microphyllus Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 134 (1852)
Description
Ascending to erect, much-branched shrub, up to 50 cm tall; branchlets obscured by persistent, imbricate, appressed lvs and tomentum, 1–2 mm diam. (including lvs). Lvs glabrous on lower, outer surface, densely white-tomentose on upper, inner surface, apetiolate, narrow-oblong, spathulate or narrow-ovate, slightly involute, obtuse and slightly cucullate, 2–2.5 × 0.3–1 mm. Lvs of seedlings and reversion shoots spreading, densely tomentose on both surfaces. Capitula 4–8 mm diam., solitary, sessile. Middle involucral bracts glabrous, oblong, obtuse, not or slightly radiating, membranous, with pale and transparent lamina, and darker and opaque stereome, 3.5–5 mm long. Disc bright yellow. Achenes densely clothed in antrorse hairs, cylindric, slightly angled or compressed, 1.2–1.5 mm long.
[From: Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4.]
Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
Bibliography
Bentham, G.; Hooker, J.D. 1873: Genera Plantarum ad exemplaria impimis in herbariis Kewensibus. Vol. 2. Part 1.
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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. 1852–1853 ("1853"): 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 I. Flowering plants. Lovell Reeve, London.
Ward, J.M.; Breitwieser, I. 1998: Systematics of New Zealand Inuleae (Compositae) — 4. A taxonomic review. New Zealand Journal of Botany 36(2): 165–171.
Yeo, P. F. 1970: New Names in Helichrysum and Felicia (Compositae). Taxon 19: 246–246.
