Class
Order
Family
Genus
Classification
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Helichrysum plumeum Allan, Trans. & Proc. Roy. Soc. New Zealand 76: 594, f. 5 (1947)
Synonymy:
- = Helichrysum selago var. tomentosum Cheeseman, Man. New Zealand Fl. 343 (1906)
Description
Ascending to erect, much-branched shrub up to 60 cm tall; branchlets obscured by persistent, imbricate, appressed lvs and tomentum, 2–4 mm diam. (including lvs). Lvs usually yellow-, rarely white-tomentose on both surfaces, finally partly glabrous on lower, apetiolate, ovate to ovate-oblong, involute, obtuse, slightly cucullate, 2–2.5–(4) × 1–1.5 mm. Capitula 3–5–(6) mm diam., solitary, sessile. Middle involucral bracts tomentose on lamina, oblong, obtuse to acute, slightly radiating, membranous, with opaque stereome, 3–5 mm long. Disc yellow. Achenes with short appressed hairs, cylindric to obovoid, angled or compressed, 1.2–1.5 mm long.
[From: Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4.]
Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
Bibliography
Allan, H.H. 1947: Notes on New Zealand Floristic Botany, Including Description of New Species etc. (No. 8). Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand 76: 589–596.
Cheeseman, T.F. 1906: Manual of the New Zealand Flora. Government Printer, Wellington.
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.; Norton, D.A.; Heenan, P.B.; Courtney, S.P.; Molloy, B.P.J.; Ogle, C.C.; Rance, B.D. 2004: Threatened and uncommon plants of New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 42(1): 45–76.
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]
