Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Asterales Link
Family
Compositae Giseke
 Subordinate Taxa
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Traversia Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 163 (1864)
 Description

Capitula homogamous, subcorymbosely arranged, 10–12-fld, pedicels slender, bracteolate, often paired. Involucre of 6–8 rigid and coriac. phyll. Receptacle alveolate. Anthers obtuse at base, cells not tailed. Style-arms truncate, papillose. Pappus irregularly 2-seried, of rigid unequal barbellate hairs, < corolla-tube. Shrub with stout main branches and alt. serrate lvs. Type and only known sp.: T. baccharoides.

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

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
Number of species in New Zealand within Traversia Hook.f.
CategoryNumber
Indigenous (Endemic)1
Total1
 Bibliography
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.
Mabberley, D.J. 2008: Mabberley's plant book, a portable dictionary of plants, their classification and uses. Edition 3. Cambridge University Press.