Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Asterales Link
Family
Compositae Giseke
Genus
Pleurophyllum Hook.f.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Pleurophyllum speciosum Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. I. (Fl. Antarct.) Part I, 31, t. 22,23 (1844)
Synonymy:
TYPE: NEW ZEALAND. Lord Auckland’s group, top of the hill above Rendezvous Harbour, 1840, J. D. Hooker s.n.? (lectotype: K 882119 Herbarium Hookerianum designated by Allan 1961: 610
  • = Pleurophyllum speciosum var. suberecta Kirk, Stud. Fl. New Zealand 278 (1899)
Vernacular Name(s):
Campbell Island daisy; giant emperor daisy; goblet aster
 Description

Radicals lvs 15–45 × 10–25 cm., appressed to ground or ascending, broadly obovate to subrhomboid, narrowed to broad base, coriac., margins remotely and indistinctly crenate to subentire, hydathodes hidden by tomentum; lateral veins ridged, almost as strong as midrib. 15–30; lamina loosely tomentose below, pilose on and near veins above and with ∞ moniliform hairs on surface. Scapes stout, up to 1m. tall, tomentose above; lower lvs c. 15 cm. long, ± oblong, upper diminishing gradually to bracts. Capitula c. 6 cm. diam. including long ray-florets, c. 25 in subcorymbose racemes; ray-florets pale purple to white, disk-florets purple. Phyll. ± clad in moniliform hairs, acute. Achenes densely strigose. Pappus-hairs not thickened above.

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

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Phenology

Flowering: Dec.–Feb.; Fruiting: Jan.–May.

 Bibliography
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