Class
Order
Family
Genus
Classification
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Solenogyne gunnii (Hook.f.) Cabrera, Blumea 14: 307 (1966)
Synonymy:
- ≡ Emphysopus gunnii Hook.f., London J. Bot. 6: 114 (1847)
- ≡ Lagenophora gunnii (Hook.f.) J.M.Black, Trans. Roy. Soc. South Australia 51: 58 (1927)
- = Lagenophora emphysopus Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. III. (Fl. Tasman.) Part I, 189 (1860 [1856])
Vernacular Name(s):
Rayless daisy
Description
Perennial rosette herb with simple, short, non-creeping rhizomes. Basal lvs apetiolate, obovate to oblong-obovate, cuneate, obtuse, crenate with 1–6 pairs of teeth often confined to distal 1/2, rarely ± entire, moderately pilose on both surfaces, 20–40–(80) × 8–20–(25) mm. Peduncle pilose, < 1 cm long at flowering, elongating to up to 6–(9) cm long at fruiting, with 1 triangular scale-like lf. Capitula c. 2 mm diam. at anthesis. Involucral bracts ovate to elliptic-oblong, glabrous or sparsely hairy, erect at fruiting and often tinged purple, 2–3 mm long. Corolla of ♀ florets white, that of ♂ florets green, later tinged purple. Achenes glabrous, c. 2–2.5 mm long.
[From: Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4.]
Biostatus
Exotic
Phenology
Flowering: Nov.–Mar.
Bibliography
Cabrera, A. L. 1966: The Genus Lagenophora (Compositae). Blumea 14: 285–307.
Cleland, J. B.; Black, J. M. 1927: An Enumeration of the Vascular Plants of Kangaroo Island. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 51: 24–61.
Hooker, J.D. 1847: Florae Tasmaniae Spicilegium; or Contributions towards a Flora of Van Diemen's Land. London Journal of Botany 6: 106–125, 265–286, 461–479.
Hooker, J.D. 1855–1857 ("1860"): The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H.M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror in the Years 1839–1843, under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross. III. Flora Tasmaniae. Vol. I. Dicoteledones. Lovell Reeve, London.
Swenson, U. 1993: The identity of Abrotanella christensenii Petrie (Asteraceae). Compositae Newsletter 23: 3–6.
