Craspedia G.Forst.

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Name scientific

Craspedia G.Forst., Fl. Ins. Austr. 58 (1786)

Preferred name

Craspedia G.Forst.

Taxonomy reference

Allan, H.H. 1961: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. I. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledones. Government Printer, Wellington.

Linked name

Craspedia

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Indigenous, non-endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Original authors

G.Forst.

Authors

G.Forst.

Publication place

Forster, J.G.A. 1786: Florulae Insularum Australium Prodromus. Dietrich, Göttingen.

Year published

1786

Publication page

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Craspedia G.Forst.

Type taxon

Craspedia uniflora G.Forst.

Taxonomic rank

genus

Canonical form

Craspedia

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Asterales

Family

Compositae

Genus

Craspedia

Subordinates

Vernacular names

Language of use: English

Woollyhead

Language of use: Māori

Puatea

Associations

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Association type

Associated organism

Association source

has host

Gnaphalium L.

CHR (1 records from [Not available].)

Descriptions

Allan, H.H. 1961: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. I. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledones. Government Printer, Wellington.

Craspedia G.Forst.

Description

Infl. contracted into a dense glomerule subtended by scarious to lflike short bracts; general receptacle slightly convex, bearing short hyaline scales. Capitula ∞, homogamous, discoid, subsessile to distinctly pedicellate; phyll. about linear, hyaline except at extreme base; florets 3-8, perfect. Corolla tubular-campanulate, 5-toothed, white, yellow, or rarely pink to purplish. Achenes turbinate to oblong-compressed, us. silky-hairy; pappus-hairs in one series, plumose, flattened towards base. Rosette herbs with undivided scape terminated by a single glomerule. A genus of a few ill-defined spp. confined to Australia, Tasmania and N.Z. The N.Z. spp. have not been adequately compared with those of Tasmania and Australia.

Dawson, M.I. 2008: Index of chromosome numbers of indigenous New Zealand vascular plants.