Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Asterales Link
Family
Compositae Giseke
Genus
Lagenophora Cass.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Lagenophora pinnatifida Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 126 (1853) – as Lageniphera pinnatifida
Synonymy:
  • = Lagenophora pinnatifida var. hirsutissima Cockayne, Trans. New Zealand Inst. 48: 197 (1916) – as Lagenophora pinnatifida var. hirsutissima
 Description

Stock simple to branched; rhizomes 0 or short or occ. long; roots slender, wiry. Basal lvs rosulate; lamina ± 20–60 × 15–25 mm., obovate-oblong to oblong, cuneately narrowed to base, thin, soft, densely clad on both surfaces in long soft multicellular subappressed hairs; margins us. deeply crenate to crenate-dentate to pinnatifid; teeth us. ∞, ± apiculate. Petioles broad, 10–15–(30) mm. long. Cauline lvs similar, smaller, few to 0. Scapes 5–25 cm. long, slender to rather stout, erect, sparsely hairy towards apex; bracts linear, c. 2 mm. long. Capitula c. 10–15 mm. diam. Phyll. narrow-oblong to narrow-lanceolate, acute; scarious margins distinct. Ray-florets ∞, shortly ligulate. Achenes 2–2.5 × 0.75–1mm., obliquely obovate; margins thickened. Beak erect, 0·5–0.75 mm. long.

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

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Phenology

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

 Bibliography
Cockayne, L. 1916: Notes on New Zealand floristic botany, including descriptions of new species, etc. (No. 1). Transactions of the New Zealand Institute 48: 193–202.
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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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