Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Asterales Link
Family
Compositae Giseke
Genus
Senecio L.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Senecio glomeratus Poir., Encycl. (Lamarck) Suppl. 5. 130 (1817) subsp. glomeratus
Synonymy:
  • = Senecio argutus A.Rich., Essai Fl. Nouv.-Zél., 258 (1832) nom. illeg., non Senecio argutus Kunth 1820
  • ≡ Erechtites argutus (A.Rich.) DC., Prodr. [A. P. de Candolle] 6, 296 (1838) – as arguta
  • = Erechtites glomeratus DC., Prodr. [A. P. de Candolle] 6, 297 (1838) nom. illeg. – as glomerata
  • = Erechtites quadridentatus var. traversii Allan, Fl. New Zealand 1, 735, 971 (1961)
 Description

Mid lvs c. 6–7 × 1 cm., lanceolate, acute, entire towards apex, denticulate towards widened base, semiamplexicaul and furnished with large, deeply acutely dentate auricles; clad on both surfaces in loose cobwebby tomentum, becoming nearly glab. above in age. Upper lvs linear, entire or subentire, with small auricles, diminishing from c. 4 cm. long to linear bracts of infl. Infl. compactly subcorymbose with ∞ clustered capitula on slender hairy pedicels. Capitula c. 7 mm. long; phyll. c. 6 mm. long, hairy at base. Achenes c. 1–1·5 mm. long, grooved, scabridulous, slightly narrowed to apex.

[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1 as Erechtites quadridentata var. traversii Allan]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Non-endemic)
 Bibliography
de Candolle, A.P. 1838 ("1837"): Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis. Vol. 6. Treuttel et Würtz, Paris.
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]
Poiret, J.L.M. 1817: Encyclopédie Méthodique, Botanique. Vol. Supplement 5.
Richard, A. 1832: Essai d'une Flore de la Nouvelle Zélande. In: Dumont d'Urville, J. Voyage de découvertes de l'Astrolabe. Botanique. Tastu, Paris.
Thompson, I.R. 2004: Taxonomic studies of Australian Senecio (Asteraceae): 1. The disciform species. Muelleria 19: 101–214.