Classification
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Leptinella traillii subsp. pulchella (Kirk) D.G.Lloyd & C.J.Webb, New Zealand J. Bot. 25: 102 (1987)
Synonymy:
  • Cotula pulchella Kirk, Stud. Fl. New Zealand 328 (1899)
  • Cotula dioica var. pulchella (Kirk) Cheeseman, Man. New Zealand Fl. 359 (1906)
  • Cotula traillii subsp. pulchella (Kirk) D.G.Lloyd, New Zealand J. Bot. 10: 324 (1972)
 Description

Leaves less coriaceous, thinner and not us. dotted with glands, lighter green, with brown pigment only on proximal pinnae; pinnae oblong to broadly ovate, width less than length, with up to 4 (rarely to 10) more distant broadly triangular teeth confined to the outer margin or occ. extending onto distal margin.

[Reproduced from Lloyd (1972, New Zealand J. Bot. 10: 277–372, as Cotula traillii subsp. pulchella (Kirk) D.G.Lloyd) with permission from The Royal Society of New Zealand.]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Bibliography
Cheeseman, T.F. 1906: Manual of the New Zealand Flora. Government Printer, Wellington.
de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A.; Courtney, S.P.; Heenan, P.B.; Barkla, J.W.; Cameron, E.K.; Hitchmough, R.; Townsend, A.J. 2009: Threatened and uncommon plants of New Zealand (2008 revision). New Zealand Journal of Botany 47: 61–96. [Naturally uncommon]
de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A.; Heenan, P.B.; Courtney, S.P.; Molloy, B.P.J.; Ogle, C.C.; Rance, B.D. 2004: Threatened and uncommon plants of New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 42(1): 45–76.
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. [Nationally Vulnerable]
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. [Naturally Uncommon]
Kirk,T. 1899: The Students' Flora of New Zealand and the Outlying Islands. Government Printer, Wellington, N.Z.
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.
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.