Class
Order
Family
Classification
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Abrotanella spathulata (Hook.f.) Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 139 (1864)
Synonymy:
- ≡ Trineuron spathulatum Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. I. (Fl. Antarct.) Part I, 23, t.17 (1844)
Description
Stock stout, multicipital; lvs rosulate on short stems, spreading, narrowly obovate-spathulate, subacute, 1∙5–2∙5 cm. × 2–5 mm., subcoriac., gradually narrowed to flat petiole. Capitula c. 5, corymbosely crowded; peduncles elongating in fr. to ± 2–5 cm., rather stout, grooved, with lfy bracts up to and subtending corymb. Phyll. c. 10, narrowly ovate-lanceolate to ovate or oblong-ovate, c. 3·5 mm. long, almost cartilaginous, with a pair of prominent veins close to midrib. Florets 5–12, corolla of disk-florets quadrangular, of ♀ tubular from globose base. Achenes glab., 2–4 mm. long; of ♀ obovoid with 3 thickened ribs, of disk-florets tetragonous, sts abortive.
[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1.]
Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
Bibliography
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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.
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