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Shawia insignis (Hook.f.) Saldivia & Nicol

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Shawia insignis (Hook.f.) Saldivia & Nicol, Phytoneuron 2025-49: 27 (2025)
Shawia insignis (Hook.f.) Saldivia & Nicol
Saldivia, P.; Nicol, D.A. 2025: Reinstatement, broader circumscription, and infrageneric classification of Shawia (Astereae, Celmisiinae), a large woody genus endemic to Australasia. Phytoneuron 2025-49: 1–43 (online). (Published online: 11 September 2025)

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Endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region
Saldivia, P.; Nicol, D.A. (2025)

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Saldivia & Nicol
Hook.f.
(Hook.f.) Saldivia & Nicol
Saldivia, P.; Nicol, D.A. 2025: Reinstatement, broader circumscription, and infrageneric classification of Shawia (Astereae, Celmisiinae), a large woody genus endemic to Australasia. Phytoneuron 2025-49: 1–43 (online). (Published online: 11 September 2025)
2025
27
ICN
Olearia insignis Hook.f.
species
Shawia insignis

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Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Asterales
Compositae
Shawia
insignis

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

Pachystegia insignis (Hook.f.) Cheeseman

Stout spreading shrub up to 2 m. tall, us. less. Branches stout, densely tomentose. Lvs in subrosettes towards tips of branchlets, very thick and coriac., entire (occ. retuse to emarginate), glab. above when mature, clad in dense soft white to buff or fulvous tomentum below, us. with line of tomentum along margins above. Petioles stout, up to 5 cm. or more long; lamina 6·5-16 × 3-7·5 cm., oblong to obovate-oblong, or ovate-oblong, obtuse. Peduncles 10-30 cm. × 3-5 mm., densely tomentose, nude or with distal foliaceous bracts often subtending capitula. Capitula subglobose; receptacle 1-2 cm. diam. Phyll. tomentose without, glab. and lustrous within. Ray-florets ∞, as are the disk-florets. Achenes c. 1 cm. long, very narrow-linear, silky-hairy. Pappus-hairs c. 1 cm. long, barbellate, slightly thickened above and the barbels there longer.
Dawson, M.I. 2008: Index of chromosome numbers of indigenous New Zealand vascular plants.

Pachystegia insignis (Hook.f.) Cheeseman

2n = 108
2n = 108
n = 54

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Aster insignis (Hook.f.) F.Muell.
Aster insignis (Hook.f.) F.Muell.
Heenan, P.B.; Molloy, B.P.J. (2023)
Pachystegia insignis (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
Aster insignis (Hook.f.) F.Muell.
Aster insignis (Hook.f.) F.Muell.
Saldivia, P.; Nicol, D.A. (2025)
Shawia insignis (Hook.f.) Saldivia & Nicol
Aster neozelandicus Kuntze
Aster neozelandicus Kuntze
Heenan, P.B.; Molloy, B.P.J. (2023)
Pachystegia insignis (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
Aster neozelandicus Kuntze
Aster neozelandicus Kuntze
Saldivia, P.; Nicol, D.A. (2025)
Shawia insignis (Hook.f.) Saldivia & Nicol
Olearia insignis Hook.f.
Olearia insignis Hook.f.
Allan Herbarium (2007)
Pachystegia insignis (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
Olearia Moench
Olearia insignis Hook.f.
Olearia insignis Hook.f.
Connor, H.E.; Edgar, E. (1987)
Pachystegia insignis (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
Olearia insignis Hook.f.
Olearia insignis Hook.f.
Heenan, P.B.; Molloy, B.P.J. (2023)
Pachystegia insignis (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
Olearia insignis Hook.f.
Olearia insignis Hook.f.
Saldivia, P.; Nicol, D.A. (2025)
Shawia insignis (Hook.f.) Saldivia & Nicol
Olearia marginata Colenso
Olearia marginata Colenso
Allan Herbarium (2007)
Pachystegia insignis (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
Olearia Moench
Olearia marginata Colenso
Olearia marginata Colenso
Allan, H.H. (1961)
Pachystegia insignis (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
Olearia marginata Colenso
Olearia marginata Colenso
Heenan, P.B.; Molloy, B.P.J. (2023)
Pachystegia insignis (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
Olearia marginata Colenso
Olearia marginata Colenso
Saldivia, P.; Nicol, D.A. (2025)
Shawia insignis (Hook.f.) Saldivia & Nicol
Pachystegia "A"
Pachystegia "A"
Allan Herbarium (2007)
Pachystegia Cheeseman
Pachystegia "A"
Pachystegia "A"
Heenan, P.B.; Molloy, B.P.J. (2023)
Pachystegia insignis (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
Pachystegia "A"
Pachystegia "A"
Saldivia, P.; Nicol, D.A. (2025)
Shawia insignis (Hook.f.) Saldivia & Nicol
Pachystegia ("A")
Pachystegia ("A")
Allan Herbarium (2007)
Pachystegia Cheeseman
Pachystegia ("A")
Pachystegia ("A")
Heenan, P.B.; Molloy, B.P.J. (2023)
Pachystegia insignis (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
Pachystegia ("A")
Pachystegia ("A")
Saldivia, P.; Nicol, D.A. (2025)
Shawia insignis (Hook.f.) Saldivia & Nicol
Pachystegia insignis (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
Pachystegia insignis (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
Allan Herbarium (2007)
Pachystegia insignis (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
Pachystegia Cheeseman
Pachystegia insignis (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
Pachystegia insignis (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
Allan, H.H. (1961)
Pachystegia insignis (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
Pachystegia insignis (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
Connor, H.E.; Edgar, E. (1987)
Pachystegia insignis (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
Pachystegia insignis (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
Dawson, M.I. (2008)
Pachystegia Cheeseman
Pachystegia insignis (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
Pachystegia insignis (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
Dawson, M.I. (2008)
Pachystegia Cheeseman
Pachystegia insignis (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
Pachystegia insignis (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
Dawson, M.I. (2008)
Pachystegia Cheeseman
Pachystegia insignis (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
Pachystegia insignis (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R. et al. (2013)
Pachystegia insignis (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
Pachystegia insignis (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
Pachystegia insignis (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R. et al. (2018)
Pachystegia insignis (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
Pachystegia insignis (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
Pachystegia insignis (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
Heenan, P.B.; Molloy, B.P.J. (2023)
Pachystegia insignis (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
Pachystegia insignis (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
Pachystegia insignis (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
Saldivia, P.; Nicol, D.A. (2025)
Shawia insignis (Hook.f.) Saldivia & Nicol
Shawia insignis (Hook.f.) Saldivia & Nicol
Shawia insignis (Hook.f.) Saldivia & Nicol
Saldivia, P.; Nicol, D.A. (2025)
Shawia insignis (Hook.f.) Saldivia & Nicol

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Pachystegia insignis (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
New Zealand
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Pachystegia insignis (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
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Pachystegia insignis (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
173 Link to an external page
Pachystegia insignis (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
New Zealand
Otago Land District
1 Link to an external page
Pachystegia insignis (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
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14524bc3-04ad-421a-904f-c7209e114bf3
scientific name
Names_Plants
3 October 2025
5 January 2026
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