Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Asterales Link
Family
Compositae Giseke
Genus
Traversia Hook.f.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Traversia baccharoides Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 164 (1864)
Synonymy:
  • = Senecio germinatus Kirk, Stud. Fl. New Zealand 350 (1899)
 Description

Shrub up to 1 m. or more tall, branches with papery deciduous bark. Branchlets slender, clad in remains of lf-bases, grooved; young branchlets, lvs, pedicels and phyll. glutinous. Lvs c. 5–8 × 1·5–2.5 cm., sub-coriac., obtuse to subacute, of obovate order, cuneately narrowed to decurrent base, coarsely serrate in expanded portion; venation evident, main veins at narrow angle with midrib, arching. Subfloral lvs smaller, more finely serrate, merging into bracts of infl. Infl. laxly corymbose, capitula ∞ to few, c. 8 mm. long, 10 mm. diam. Florets white, 12–15, narrow-tubular, perfect, campanulate above with 5 linear spreading to recurved lobes up to 2.5 mm. long, > pappus-hairs; stamens exserted. Phyll. c. 6 mm. long, linear-oblong, obtuse, rigid and coriac., margins membr. Achenes c. 1·5–2 mm. long, ribbed, glab., obovoid, very shortly stipitate. Pappus-hairs stiff, up to 5 mm. long, minutely barbellate.

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

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Phenology

Flowering: Jan.–Feb.

 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. [Declining]
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. [Not Threatened]
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. [Declining]
Hooker, J.D. 1864: Handbook of the New Zealand Flora: a systematic description of the native plants of New Zealand and the Chatham, Kermadec's, Lord Auckland's, Campbell's and Macquarie's Islands. Part I. Reeve, London.
Kirk,T. 1899: The Students' Flora of New Zealand and the Outlying Islands. Government Printer, Wellington, N.Z.