Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Asterales Link
Family
Compositae Giseke
 Subordinate Taxa
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Lagenophora Cass., Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris 198-199 (1816) – as Lagenifera
Synonymy:
  • = Microcalia A.Rich., Essai Fl. Nouv.-Zél., 230, t. 30 (1832)
Type Taxon:
Lagenophora billardierei Cass. = Lagenophora stipitata (Labill.) Druce
 Description

Capitula small, solitary, heterogamous, on nude or bracted scapes; receptacle nude, convex; phyll. in c. 2 rows, wholly or marginally dry and scarious. Ray-florets pistillate, ligulate, white to purple; disk-florets tubular, perfect or sts abortive. Anthers us. obtuse at base; style-arms of disk-florets flattened, with lanceolate-triangular unreceptive tips. Achenes compressed or rarely ± turgid, ± dimidiate to obliquely obovate, contracted to base; margins us. thickened; beak ± viscid, pappus 0. Perennial, us. rhizomatous herbs with basal lvs and at least 1–2 cauline ones.

[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1.]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Non-endemic)
Number of species in New Zealand within Lagenophora Cass.
CategoryNumber
Indigenous (Endemic)7
Indigenous (Non-endemic)2
Total9
 Bibliography
Cassini, H. 1816: Aperpu des genres nouveaux formes par M. Henri Cassini, dans la famille des Synantherees . Bulletin des Sciences, de la Société Philomatique de Paris (Fasc. 1): 198–199.
Drury, D.G. 1974: A Broadly Based Taxonomy of Lagenifera Section Lagenifera and Solenogyne (Compositae-Astereae), with an Account of their Species in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 12: 365–395.
Mabberley, D.J. 2008: Mabberley's plant book, a portable dictionary of plants, their classification and uses. Edition 3. Cambridge University Press.
Nicolson, D.H. 1996: (1233) Proposal to conserve the name Lagenophora (Compositae) with a conserved spelling. Taxon 45: 341–342.
Richard, A. 1832: Essai d'une Flore de la Nouvelle Zélande. In: Dumont d'Urville, J. Voyage de découvertes de l'Astrolabe. Botanique. Tastu, Paris.
Wang, J.; Bean, R.R. 2019: A taxonomic revision of Lagenophora Cass. (Asteraceae) in Australia. Austrobaileya 10(3): 405–442.