Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Asterales Link
Family
Compositae Giseke
Genus
Celmisia Cass.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Celmisia dallii Buchanan, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 14: 355, Pl. 35, fig. 1 (1881 [1882])
Synonymy:
Type locality: New Zealand. South Island, Nelson, on the Golden [Gouland] Downs near head of the Aorere River. Type: [icon] Buchanan (1882: Plate XXXV) (lectotype designated by Allan 1961: 639).
 Description

Robust tufted ± viscid herb arising from us. simple stock up to ± 6 cm. long, pseudo-stem ± 6 cm. long. Lamina obovate-oblong to obovate-lanceolate, coriac., subacute to obtuse, us. apiculate; (8)–10–15–(20) × (3)–4–(5) cm.; upper surface glab., midrib and main veins evident; lower densely clad in appressed satiny white to pale buff tomentum, midrib stout, grooved, main veins evident through tomentum. Margins slightly upturned, sharply minutely toothed, narrowed to base, then suddenly widened to thinly coriac., glab., prominently ribbed sheath 4–5 × ± 2 cm. Scape stout, ± flattened, strongly ribbed, (15)–20–30–(45) cm. long. Bracts us. ∞, foliaceous, tomentum as in lvs, lower (25)–35–50 × 6–12 mm.; uppermost forming a pseudo-involucre. Capitula 35–40–(65) mm. diam. Phyll. ± viscid, outer ovate-oblong, foliaceous, similar to upper bracts; inner ± 12 × 2 mm., membr., viscid, ciliate. Ray-florets ∞, c. 15 mm. long, tube slender, limb narrow, gradually widening to 3–4-toothed apex. Disk-florets narrow-tubular to narrow-funnelform, c. 7 mm. long, teeth triangular. Anthers distinctly tailed. Achenes compressed narrow-cylindric, (2)–3–(4) mm. long, pilose on rather weak ribs. Pappus-hairs slender, up to c. 7 mm. long, minutely barbellate.

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

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Bibliography
Buchanan, J. 1882: On the alpine flora of New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 14: 342–356.
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. [Not Threatened]
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]
Saldivia, P. 2023: Nomenclature and typifications in Celmisia (Asteraceae: Astereae): The New Zealand endemic subgenera Caespitosae, Glandulosae, and Lignosae. Phytotaxa 591(1): 31–45.