Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Asterales Link
Family
Compositae Giseke
Genus
Helichrysum Mill.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Helichrysum depressum (Hook.f.) Benth. & Hook.f., Gen. Pl. [Bentham & Hooker f.] 2(1), 311 (1873)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Ozothamnus depressus Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 134 (1852)
 Description

Usually a prostrate shrub, rarely more erect and up to 1 m tall; branchlets usually obscured by persistent, imbricate, appressed lvs and tomentum, sometimes with stem partly exposed below lf bases, 1–2 mm diam. (including lvs). Lvs covered by paper-like, flat, grey tomentum on lower, outer surface, densely tomentose on upper, inner surface, apetiolate, narrow-oblong to oblong- triangular, concave, obtuse and not or scarcely cucullate, 2.5–4–(5) × 0.5–1 mm. Lvs of young plants and shaded shoots spreading. Capitula 3–5 mm diam., solitary, sessile. Middle involucral bracts glabrous or sparsely hairy on lamina, oblong, obtuse to acute, not or slightly radiating, membranous, with pale and transparent lamina, and opaque stereome, 5–7 mm long. Disc yellow. Achenes glabrous, cylindric and angled or compressed, 1.8–2.3 mm long.

[From: Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4.]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Bibliography
Bentham, G.; Hooker, J.D. 1873: Genera Plantarum ad exemplaria impimis in herbariis Kewensibus. Vol. 2. Part 1.
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. 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.