Senecio saxifragoides Hook.f.

Details

Name scientific

Senecio saxifragoides Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 144 (1852)

Preferred name

Brachyglottis lagopus (Raoul) B.Nord.

Taxonomy reference

Millar, T.R.; Breitwieser, I.; Pelser, P.B.; Smissen, R.D. 2018: A new classification of rosette-forming Brachyglottis (Asteraceae: Senecioneae) recognising a single species: Brachyglottis lagopus . New Zealand Journal of Botany 56(3): 237–263.

Nomenclature

Original authors

Hook.f.

Authors

Hook.f.

Publication place

Hooker, J.D. 1852–1853 ("1853"): The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H.M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror in the Years 1839–1843, under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross. II. Flora Novae-Zelandiae. Part I. Flowering plants. Lovell Reeve, London.

Year published

1852

Publication page

144

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Senecio saxifragoides Hook.f.

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Senecio saxifragoides

Typification

Holotype: K, K000036363: Port Cooper, Lyall

Mennes, C.B.; Smissen, R.D.; Pelser, P.B. 2012: AFLP analyses do not provide support for recognizing Brachyglottis saxifragoides as a species distinct from B. lagopus (Asteraceae; Senecioneae). New Zealand Journal of Botany 4: 489–495.

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Asterales

Family

Compositae

Genus

Senecio

Species

saxifragoides

Descriptions

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

Senecio saxifragoides Hook.f.

Description

Stock stout, clad in dense soft brownish or white wool. Lvs spreading to suberect; lamina ovate-oblong to broad-oblong to suborbicular, coriac., obtuse, cordate to obliquely cordate at base, 7-20 × 5-15 cm.; upper surface densely clad in long silky hairs, finally nearly glab.; lower surface densely clad in long woolly white tomentum, finally nearly glab.; petiole stout, 3-10 cm. long or more, densely silky-hairy in upper portion, clad in long brownish to white hairs at base. Scapes us. branched, up to 45 cm. long, clad in long silky hairs mingled with ∞ glandular ones; bracts linear-oblong. Capitula 2-4 cm. diam., ligules yellow, up to 3 cm. long; phyll. acute, tomentose and glandular on back. Pappus-hairs rather stiff, up to 5 mm. long; achenes linear, 5-8 mm. long.