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Family
Genus
Classification
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Celmisia cockayneana Petrie, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 44: 182 (1911 [1912]) – as Celmisia cockayniana
Synonymy:
Type: New Zealand. South Island, Mt Fyffe, Seaward Kaikoura Range, 4000 ft., 10 Nov 1892, L. Cockayne s.n. (first-step lectotype WELT SP2142 designated by Allan 1961: 626; second-step lectotype WELT SP2142A designated by Saldivia 2023; isolectotype WELT SP2142B)
Description
Stout subshrub; stems woody, ± 10 cm. diam.; branches stout, us. rather close-set, erect or ascending, clad in lf-remains; living Ivs rosulate at tips of branchlets. Lamina coriac., ± 4–8–(10) cm. × 10–15 mm.; narrowly obovate-spathulate to obovate-oblong, subacute to obtuse, us. minutely apiculate; upper surface glab., veins ± distinct; lower surface clad in dense appressed white satiny tomentum, midrib dark, prominent; margins sinuate, distantly furnished with glandular denticles, narrowed cuneately to petiole then widening to nearly glab. sheath c. 10 mm. long. Scape rather slender to rather stout, ± 15–20 cm. long, rather densely clad in viscid glandular hairs; bracts us. many; lower up to 3 cm. long, lflike, ± lanceolate, apiculate; upper linear-oblong. Capitula 2–3–(4) cm. diam.; phyll. ∞, lower bractlike, ± 12 mm. long, narrowlanceolate, acuminate, densely clad in glandular hairs; upper linear-subulate. Ray-florets ± 15 mm. long, limb narrow-oblong; disk-florets tubular, c. 5–6 mm. long. Achenes narrow-cylindric, ± compressed. 1–1·5 mm. long; ribs very densely clad in short silky hairs. Pappus-hairs up to 6 mm. long, sordid-white, hardly barbellate.
[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]
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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]
Petrie, D. 1912 ("1911"): Descriptions of New Native Species of Phanerogams. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 44: 179–187.
Saldivia, P. 2023: Nomenclature and typifications in Celmisia (Asteraceae: Astereae): The New Zealand endemic subgenera Caespitosae, Glandulosae, and Lignosae. Phytotaxa 591(1): 31–45.
