Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Asterales Link
Family
Compositae Giseke
Genus
Craspedia G.Forst.
 Subordinate Taxa
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Craspedia lanata (Hook.f.) Allan, Fl. New Zealand 1, 722 (1961)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Craspedia fimbriata var. lanata Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 131 (1853)
 Description

Lvs and scapes clad in dense appressed to subappressed greyish white tomentum; upper surface sts becoming glab. when aged. Rosette-lvs c. 5–10 × 1·5–2.5 cm., obovate, gradually narrowed to flat petiole c. 3 cm. long. Lower scape-lvs similar, smaller; upper ovate, uppermost bractlike. Scapes c. 6–30 cm. long, c. 2 mm. diam. Glomerules c. 1·5–2 cm. diam., phyll. c. 4 mm. long, linear to oblong, obtuse to subacute. Florets c. 4 mm. long, yellow or white. Achenes c. 2 mm. long, subovoid to oblong, densely silky-hairy; pappus-hairs c. 4 mm. long.

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

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
Number of subspecific taxa in New Zealand within Craspedia lanata (Hook.f.) Allan
CategoryNumber
Indigenous (Endemic)2
Total2
 Bibliography
Hooker, J.D. 1852–1853 ("1853"): The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H.M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror in the Years 1839–1843, under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross. II. Flora Novae-Zelandiae. Part I. Flowering plants. Lovell Reeve, London.