Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Asterales Link
Family
Compositae Giseke
Genus
Leptinella Cass.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Leptinella atrata (Hook.f.) D.G.Lloyd & C.J.Webb, New Zealand J. Bot. 25: 103 (1987) subsp. atrata
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Cotula atrata Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 142 (1864) subsp. atrata
 Description

Pinnae 8-15 pairs; proximal ones distant, distal ones us. overlapping; secondary pinnae up to 9 per pinna, oblong or obovate, upturned. Lower bracts on peduncle almost as divided as leaves, upper bracts simple or with few divisions. Involucre hemispherical; outer phyllaries us. pinnatifid, with up to 6 pairs of oblong lobes. Receptacle convex. Florets dark red; upper part of corolla almost black, lower part and ovary wine red; stigmas of pistillate and staminate florets not exserted far beyond the corolla, retracted into the corolla tube after anthesis (and during drying of specimens).

[Reproduced from Lloyd (1972, New Zealand J. Bot. 10: 277–372) with permission from The Royal Society of New Zealand.]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Bibliography
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. 1864: Handbook of the New Zealand Flora: a systematic description of the native plants of New Zealand and the Chatham, Kermadec's, Lord Auckland's, Campbell's and Macquarie's Islands. Part I. Reeve, London.
Lloyd, D.G. 1972: A revision of the New Zealand, Subantarctic, and South American species of Cotula, section Leptinella. New Zealand Journal of Botany 10: 277–372. [as Cotula atrata Hook.f. subsp. atrata]
Lloyd, D.G.; Webb, C. J. 1987: The reinstatement of Leptinella at generic rank, and the status of the 'Cotuleae' (Asteraceae, Anthemideae). New Zealand Journal of Botany 25: 99–105.