Pachystegia Cheeseman

Details

Name scientific

Pachystegia Cheeseman, Man. New Zealand Fl., ed. 2, 910 (1925)

Preferred name

Pachystegia Cheeseman

Taxonomy reference

Heenan, P.B.; Molloy, B.P.J. 2023: Recognition of Pachystegia hesperia sp. nov. and notes on P. insignis, P. minor and P. rufa (Asteraceae: Astereae). New Zealand Journal of Botany 61(2-3): 158–176. (Published online: 2022 (https://doi.org/10.1080/0028825X.2022.2107939))

Linked name

Pachystegia

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Authors

Cheeseman

Original authors

Cheeseman

Publication place

Cheeseman, T.F. 1925: Manual of the New Zealand Flora. Edition 2. Government Printer, Wellington.

Year published

1925

Publication page

910

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Pachystegia Cheeseman

Taxonomic rank

genus

Canonical form

Pachystegia

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Asterales

Family

Compositae

Genus

Pachystegia

Subordinates

Descriptions

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

Pachystegia Cheeseman

Description

Capitula heterogamous, solitary; ray-florets pistillate, white; disk-florets perfect, yellow, tubular. Receptacle slightly convex, alveolate. Phyll. ∞ in many series, densely imbricate; inner with slender recurved tips. Achenes linear, densely silky-pilose; pappus of a single row of barbellate capillary bristles, slightly thickened at tips. Shrubs with tomentose branchlets and very coriac. entire lvs. Genus endemic to N.Z.

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