Class
Order
Family
Genus
Classification
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Celmisia parva Kirk, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 27: 328 (1895)
Description
Small branching herb hugging ground in small patches; lvs spreading, rosulate at tips of branchlets. Lamina submembr., ± 10–20–(30) × (3)–5–10 mm.; linear- to oblong-lanceolate to narrow-oblong; upper surface glab. or nearly so, midrib and us. main veins evident; lower surface densely clad in appressed soft to satiny white hairs, midrib us. distinct; apex subacute, apiculate; margins slightly recurved, minutely distantly denticulate, cuneately narrowed to slender petiole up to 2 cm. long; sheath membr., ± = lamina. Scape almost filiform, glab. or with a few spreading hairs, ± 4–10 cm. long; bracts almost filiform, with widened bases, few (sts absent), lowermost up to c. 10 mm. long. Capitula ± 10–15 mm. diam.; phyll. linear-subulate, acute to acuminate, apiculate, scarious, midrib distinct. Rays-florets linear, up to c. 8 mm. long, teeth very narrow-triangular; disk-florets 4–5 mm. long, ± glandular at base, teeth triangular. Achenes narrow-cylindric, 1–2 mm. long, glab. or nearly so (in some forms with stiff hairs on obscure ribs). Pappus-hairs up to 4–5 mm. long, very slender, sordid-white, 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]
Kirk, T. 1895: On new forms of Celmisia, Cass. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 27: 327–330.
