Class
Order
Family
Classification
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Abrotanella inconspicua Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 140 (1864)
Description
Stock rather stout, multicipital, emitting short stolons densely clad in imbricate lvs, branches up to 3 cm. long; plant forming mosslike patches. Lvs close-set along branches, 6–10 × 1–2 mm., coriac., erect to patent, curved, narrowly linear to linear-oblong to subulate-oblong, subacute, ciliolate near sheathing base; midrib prominent. Capitula solitary, c. 3 mm. diam., subsessile, invested by lvs; phyll. up to 3 mm. long, linear-oblong, obtuse, scarious, nerves us. prominent. Florets 15–20; ♀ with slender corolla-tube, 4-lobed; disk-florets subfunnelform, us. 5-lobed. Achenes c. 1–2 mm. long, linear-clavate, distinctly to obscurely 4-ribbed, pubescent to glab.
[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1.]
Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
Bibliography
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. [Not Threatened]
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.
Swenson, U. 1995: Systematics of Abrotanella, an amphi-Pacific genus of Asteraceae (Senecioneae). Plant Systematics and Evolution 197(1-4): 149–193.
