Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Asterales Link
Family
Compositae Giseke
Genus
Abrotanella (Gaudich.) Cass.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Abrotanella pusilla (Hook.f.) Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 139 (1864)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Trineuron pusillum Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 131 (1853)
 Description

Stock slender, multicipital, or the branches elongate, creeping and rooting; lvs scattered along branches and tufted at base of erect peduncles clad in lflike bracts; ± 1–1∙5 cm. × 1 mm., linear, straight to falcate, spreading to recurved, apiculate to subacute, coriac., glab. to sparsely hairy near sheathing base. Peduncles slender, up to c. 2 cm. long in fr. Capitula c. 5 mm. diam.; phyll. 8–14, oblong, obtuse to subacute, c. 3 mm. long, veins often obscure. Florets 10–25; achenes linear-clavate, 4-ribbed on one face, each rib produced into a short appendage.

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

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
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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]
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