Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Asterales Link
Family
Compositae Giseke
Genus
Dolichoglottis B.Nord.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Dolichoglottis scorzoneroides (Hook.f.) B.Nord., Opera Bot. 44: 36 (1978)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Senecio scorzoneroides Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 146 (1853)
  • ≡ Senecio lyallii var. scorzoneroides (Hook.f.) Kirk, Stud. Fl. New Zealand 340 (1899)
Vernacular Name(s):
snow groundsel
 Description

Plant up to 5 dm. tall; stock stout, invested with remains of lf-bases. Stems stout, simple, lfy, clad above in soft slender hairs mingled with glandular ones, terminated by broad corymb. Lvs entire or with a few obscure teeth, rather fleshy, glandular-pubescent, basal up to 20 × 2 cm., linear- to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, narrowed to villous sheathing bases; cauline smaller, up to 2 cm. wide, linear- to ovate lanceolate, often distinctly toothed, sessile, subamplexicaul; lower bracts lflike, upper linear-oblong. Capitula ∞ on peduncles with soft slender hairs mingled with glandular ones; c. 4–6 cm. diam. with white ligules up to 3 cm. long. Phyll. densely glandular on back, linear-lanceolate, acute. Achenes linear, 2–4 mm. long, ribbed, pubescent-pilose; pappus-hairs up to 5 mm. long, sordid-white, stiff, barbellate.

[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1 as Senecio scorzoneroides Hook.f.]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
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Kirk,T. 1899: The Students' Flora of New Zealand and the Outlying Islands. Government Printer, Wellington, N.Z.
Nordenstam, B. 1978: Taxonomic studies in the tribe Senecioneae (Compositae). Opera Botanica 44: 1–83.