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Classification
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Abrotanella muscosa Kirk, Trans. New Zealand Inst. 24: 422, t.36 (1892)
Description
Stock slender, stems occ. solitary, us. close-set forming mosslike patches up to 5 cm. diam. Lvs densely imbricate, coriac., 3–4 × < 1 mm., linear-oblong, retuse, margins thickened above sheathing-base. Capitula sessile, terminal, minute, invested by lvs; phyll. c. 5, oblong, obtuse to apiculate, obscurely veined. Florets 4–8; ♀ with slender, cylindric, obscurely toothed corolla-tube; disk-florets with tubular more distinctly toothed corolla-tube. Achenes pubescent to setose, clavate, 4-angled; angles produced into slender setae.
[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1.]
Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
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]
Kirk, T. 1892: Remarks on the Genus Abrotanella, Cassini, with Descriptions of New Species. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute 24: 418–422.
Swenson, U. 1995: Systematics of Abrotanella, an amphi-Pacific genus of Asteraceae (Senecioneae). Plant Systematics and Evolution 197(1-4): 149–193.
