Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Asterales Link
Family
Compositae Giseke
Genus
Brachyglottis J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Brachyglottis compacta (Kirk) B.Nord., Opera Bot. 44: 29 (1978)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Senecio compactus Kirk, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 12: 395 (1879 [1880])
 Description

Compactly branched shrub up to 1 m. tall, with stout branches; branchlets and petioles densely clad in soft white tomentum. Lvs rather distant to close-set; lamina 2–4 × 1–2 cm., obovate to oblong, obtuse, narrowed to petiole; margins distinctly to obscurely crenulate and waved; upper surface of very young lvs white-tomentose, of mature lvs glab. and dull except on margins; lower surface densely clad in soft white tomentum, midrib distinct; petiole 1–2 cm. long, slender, channelled above. Capitula up to 3 cm. diam., solitary or in few-fld racemes with foliaceous bracts; phyll. tomentose on back, with scarious margins in upper part, acute. Ray-florets 10 or more, spreading, bright yellow. Achenes 3 mm. long, linear-oblong, grooved, scaberulous; pappus-hairs up to 5 mm. long, slender, finely barbellate.

[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1 as Senecio compactus Kirk]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Bibliography
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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. 1880: Descriptions of new flowering plants. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 12: 393–397.
Nordenstam, B. 1978: Taxonomic studies in the tribe Senecioneae (Compositae). Opera Botanica 44: 1–83.