Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Asterales Link
Family
Compositae Giseke
Genus
Celmisia Cass.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Celmisia lyallii Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 133 (1864)
Vernacular Name(s):
false spaniard
 Description

Tufted rigid herb with short pseudo-stem arising from us. simple stock. Lvs rigid, coriac., narrow-ensiform tapering regularly to pungent apex; lamina ± 20–30–45 cm. × 6–9 mm.; upper surface glab., very finely striate to smooth; lower surface strongly grooved, densely clad in thin appressed white satiny tomentum to almost glab. (in different plants); margins slightly recurved, entire. Sheath abruptly widened from somewhat constricted lamina-base, 3–4–(8) cm. × 10–15 mm., thin, grooved, clad in appressed white satiny tomentum. Scape ± 15–30 cm. long, rather slender, white with ± floccose tomentum, ± concealed by bract-sheaths. Bracts us. ∞, crowded; lowest lflike, to 6 cm. long, remainder decreasing regularly in size, uppermost c. 1 cm. long, forming a pseudo-involucre. Capitula 25–50 mm. diam.; phyll. linear-subulate, rigid, indurated, ± 20 mm. long, midrib prominent. Ray-florets very slender, ± 12 mm. long; limb hardly wider than tube, 4-toothed. Disk-florets 6–7 mm. long, tubular, lobes triangular. Achenes 2–3 mm. long, compressed-cylindric, strongly grooved; hairs minute, stiff, very minutely barbellate.

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

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Bibliography
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]
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.