Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Asterales Link
Family
Compositae Giseke
Genus
Lagenophora Cass.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Lagenophora petiolata Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 125 (1853) – as Lageniphera petiolata
Synonymy:
  • = Lagenophora petiolata var. α Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 125 (1853) – as Lagenophora petiolata var. α
  • = Lagenophora purpurea Kirk, Stud. Fl. New Zealand 257-258 (1899)
  • ≡ Lagenophora pumila var. purpurea (Kirk) G. Simpson, Trans. Roy. Soc. New Zealand 75: 196 (1945) – as Lagenophora pumila var. purpuratea
  • = Lagenophora pumila var. multidentata (G.Simpson & J.S.Thomson) G.Simpson, Trans. Roy. Soc. New Zealand 75: 197 (1945) – as Lagenophora pumila var. multidentata
Vernacular Name(s):
Papatāniwhaniwha; Parani
 Description

Rhizome slender, branching; basal lvs rosulate at nodes, plants forming open patches. Lamina ± 10–20 × 10–20 mm., suborbicular to ovate-oblong to broad-elliptic, truncate to rather abruptly cuneate at base, thinly coriac.; strigulose-hairy to nearly glab.; margins rather distantly sparingly crenate-serrate to sinuate or subentire; teeth distinctly apiculate. Petioles (10)–20–30 mm. long, slender. Cauline lvs similar, several to few to 0. Scapes 6–10–15 cm. long, slender, glab. to rather densely hairy; bracts few to 0, ± 2–3 mm. long, linear. Capitula 5–8–(10) mm. diam. Phyll. linear, ± acute, ciliolate, us. with narrow scarious margins. Achenes c. 2.5 × 0.75 mm., subobliquely obovate, distinctly curved, almost turgid; margins thickened. Beak c. 0.75 mm. long, continuing curvature of margins.

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

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Phenology

Flowering: Nov.–Jan.; Fruiting: Dec.–Apr.

 Bibliography
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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]
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