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Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Celmisia lateralis Buchanan, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 4: 226, t.15 (1872)
Synonymy:
Type: New Zealand. South Island, Mountains near Lake Guyon, Nelson, Mar 1871, H.H. Travers s.n. (holotype K 882097)
Description
Prostrate or scrambling subshrub with slender branched stems up to c. 3 dm. long; branchlets us. close-set, forming patches, ± 5 cm. long. Lvs ∞, densely imbricate, ascending, incurved at tips but becoming reflexed. Lamina 6–8–(12) × 1–1·5 mm.; linear, grading into sheath, coriac.; upper surface glab., ± glandular; lower surface similar; apex acuminate to obtuse; ± glandular-pubescent; sheath 2–3 mm. long, membr., with a few ± appressed hairs at base. Scape slender, 4–8 cm. long, glandular-pubescent, with or without floccose hairs; bracts similar to lvs, up to 10 mm. long. Capitula 10–20 mm. diam.; phyll. several, subulate-lanceolate to narrow-oblong, acute, up to 8 mm. long, glandular, hairs ± floccose. Ray-florets c. 10 mm. long, linear, abruptly expanded towards 3–5-toothed apex; disk-florets tubular, slightly > pappus. Achenes narrow-cylindric, compressed, 2–3 mm. long, ribs with long ascending hairs. Pappus-hairs sordid-white, very slender to filiform, finely barbellate, up to c. 5 mm. long.
[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1.]
Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
| Category | Number |
|---|---|
| Indigenous (Endemic) | 2 |
| Total | 2 |
Bibliography
Buchanan, J. 1872 ("1871"): On some New Species of New Zealand Plants. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 4: 224–227.
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.
