Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Asterales Link
Family
Compositae Giseke
Genus
Brachyglottis J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
 Subordinate Taxa
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Brachyglottis rotundifolia J.R.Forst. & G.Forst., Char. Gen. Pl., ed. 2. 92 (1776)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Cineraria rotundifolia (J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.) G.Forst., Fl. Ins. Austr. 56 (1786)
  • = Senecio reinoldii Endl. (1836)
  • = Senecio rotundifolius (J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.) Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 149 (1852) nom. illeg., non Senecio rotundifolius Stokes 1812
  • = Senecio puffinii Allan ex Rehder, J. Arnold Arbor. 27: 174 (1946)
Vernacular Name(s):
muttonbird scrub; Pūharetāiko; Pūheretāiko; Pūwharetāiko
 Description

Shrub or tree up to 6 m. or more tall; branches stout, grooved; branchlets and infl.-branchlets clad in dense pale buff to whitish tomentum. Lvs very coriac., entire, obliquely broadly oblong to suborbicular, midrib and main veins prominent below; glab. above, clad in dense appressed tomentum below; lamina 4–10 × 4–9 cm., on stout grooved petiole up to 5 cm. long. Panicles up to 20 cm. long, lower bracts foliaceous. Capitula campanulate, up to 1 cm. diam., discoid, on stout tomentose pedicels. Phyll. linear, obtuse, coriac., woolly-tomentose on back. ♀ few, disk-florets ∞.Achenes angled, 2.5 mm. long, linear-oblong, glab. or with sparse hispid hairs; pappus-hairs up to 6 mm. long, rigid, barbellate.

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

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
Number of subspecific taxa in New Zealand within Brachyglottis rotundifolia J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
CategoryNumber
Indigenous (Endemic)2
Total2
 Bibliography
Connor, H.E.; Edgar, E. 1987: Name changes in the indigenous New Zealand flora, 1960–1986 and Nomina Nova IV, 1983–1986. New Zealand Journal of Botany 25: 115–170.
Forster, J.G.A. 1786: Florulae Insularum Australium Prodromus. Dietrich, Göttingen.
Forster, J.R.; Forster, G. 1776: Characteres Generum Plantarum quas in Itinere ad Insulas Maris Australis Collegerunt, Descripserunt, Delinearunt, Annis. Edition 2. White, Cadell & Elmsley, London.
Hooker, J.D. 1852–1853 ("1853"): The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H.M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror in the Years 1839–1843, under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross. II. Flora Novae-Zelandiae. Part I. Flowering plants. Lovell Reeve, London.
Rehder, A. 1946: Notes on some Cultivated Trees and Shrubs. Journal of the Arnold Arboretum 27: 169–174.