Class
Order
Family
Genus
Classification
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Pleurophyllum criniferum Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. I. (Fl. Antarct.) Part I, 32, t.24,25 (1844)
Synonymy:
TYPE: NEW ZEALAND. Campbell Island, on the low grounds common, J. D. Hooker s.n. (lectotype: K 882116 Herbarium Hooker designated by Allan 1961: 610).
- = Albinea oresigenesa Hombr. & Jacquinot, Voy. Pôle Sud, Bot. Pl. 4 (1852)
- ≡ Pleurophyllum hombronii Decne., Voy. Pôle Sud, Botanique, 2, 36-38 (1853)
TYPE: NEW ZEALAND. Iles Auckland-Sud de la Nouvelle Zelande, In montibus: 300 aut 600 metra. Locis humiditis, Dic 1841, M. Hombron s.n. (lectotype: P 3072687 designated by Saldivia et al. 2022, isolectotype: P 3072684
Vernacular Name(s):
lance-leaf button daisy
Description
Radical lvs ascending, up to > 1m. long including petiole; lamina of diverse shape, us. of oblong-ovate to broadly lanceolate order, clad below in thin appressed white tomentum, above in scattered setose and moniliform hairs, submembr.; ribs up to 20, less prominent than in ; margins rather distantly and obscurely crenate with conspicuous linear hydathodes. Scapes stout, grooved, up to 2 m. tall; lower lvs linear-oblong, diminishing to linear bracts. Capitula c. 15–30, in elongate racemes; ray-florets short, inconspicuous; disk-florets purple. Phyll. acuminate, ciliate. Achenes densely strigose. Pappus-hairs slightly thickened at tips.
[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1.]
Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
Phenology
Flowering: Dec.–Feb.; Fruiting: Jan.–May.
Bibliography
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]
Decaisne, J. 1853: Botanique. Dumont D'Urville, J.S.C. (ed.) Voyage au Pôle Sud et dans l'Oceanie, sur les Corvettes l'Astrolabe et la Zélée: exécuté par ordre du roi pendant les années 1837-1838-1839-1840. Vol. 2. Gide, Paris.
Hombron, J.B.; Jacquinot, C. 1843–1853: Botanique, Atlas. Dumont D'Urville, J.S.C. (ed.) Voyage au Pôle Sud et dans l'Oceanie, sur les Corvettes l'Astrolabe et la Zélée: exécuté par ordre du roi pendant les années 1837-1838-1839-1840. Gide & Baudry, Paris.
Hooker, J.D. 1844–1845: 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. I. Flora Antarctica. Part I. Botany of Lord Auckland’s Group and Campbell’s Island. Reeve, Brothers, London.
Saldivia, P.; Wagstaff, S.J.; Breitwieser, I.; Orlovich, D.A.; Lord, J.M. 2022: A generic taxonomic synopsis of the Pleurophyllum clade (Asteraceae: Astereae: Celmisiinae) with the recognition of the New Zealand endemic new genus Macrolearia. Systematic Botany 47(2): 607–634.
