Class
Order
Family
Genus
Classification
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Celmisia lindsayi Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 132 (1864)
Synonymy:
Type: New Zealand. Middle [South] Island, Otago, Trap Cliffs at Shaw’s Bay, the Nuggets, mouth of the Clutha River, 6 Dec 1861, L. Lindsay s.n. in Herbarium Hookerianum (holotype K 340033)
Vernacular Name(s):
Tupere; Tuperu
Description
Robust subshrub, low-growing, forming patches up to c. 2 m. diam.; stems very stout, branched, up to c. 15 mm. diam.; branches creeping or ascending, clad in long-persistent reflexed Ivs; living Ivs in approximate rosulate tufts at ends of branchlets. Lamina coriac., viscid, narrow-oblong to sublanceolate or elliptic, ± 10–15 × 1·5–2.5 cm.; upper surface without tomentum, lower densely clad in appressed white satiny tomentum, midrib dark, stout, prominent; apex obtuse to subacute; margins sinuate, slightly thickened, entire to remotely denticulate, narrowed to petiole ± 2.5–3 × 1·5–2.5 mm. Sheath c. 3 × 1 cm., glab., coriac.; nerves parallel, us. prominent. Scape (5)–10–(20) cm., slender, flexuous, very sparingly hairy; lower bracts lflike, up to c. 3 cm. long, upper linear. Capitula (25)–30–40–(50) mm. diam.; phyll. linear, up to 12 mm. long, subfloccose in apical half, midrib distinct. Ray-florets linear, c. 12–15 mm. long; disk-florets ∞, tubular, c. 6–8 mm. long, teeth broad-triangular. Achenes narrow-cylindric, ± compressed, 3–4 mm. long; ribs prominent, rather densely clad in short ascending hairs. Pappus-hairs white, becoming ± rufous, up to 6–7 mm. long, 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]
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]
Hooker, J.D. 1864: Handbook of the New Zealand Flora: a systematic description of the native plants of New Zealand and the Chatham, Kermadec's, Lord Auckland's, Campbell's and Macquarie's Islands. Part I. Reeve, London.
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