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Celmisia vespertina Given

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Celmisia vespertina Given, New Zealand J. Bot. 7: 389-393 (1969)
Celmisia vespertina Given

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Endemic
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New Zealand
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1969
389-393
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Celmisia vespertina Given
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Celmisia vespertina

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vespertina

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Celmisia vespertina Given

Woody-based perennial herb arising from a multicipital stock. Leaf lamina linear, rigid but recurved, 5-15 cm × 3-5 mm; upper surface grooved, dark green, clad in a thick pellicle which becomes golden on drying; lower surface clad in thick appressed white tomentum, midrib prominent; margins entire, often revolute. Sheath 3-6 cm long, membranous, yellow-orange and clad in a thin pellicle. Scape 10-15 cm × 2-3 mm, bracts few. Involucral bracts erect, linear-oblong to subulate, acute, up to 12 mm long, inner narrower than outer; margins fringed with long white hairs, particularly near the base; surface almost glabrous; venation simple. Receptacle obconic, upper surface alveolate. Ray florets up to 2 cm long, limb linear and glabrous, tube narrow with a few eglandular hairs near top. In disc florets, corolla tube gradually narrowed from apex to base, glabrous or sparsely hairy with long biseriate hairs; stamen tip acute, anther tails short; style bifid, the arms differentiated into a lower parallel-sided papillose portion and an upper short-triangular portion bearing short collecting hairs. Pappus bristles unequal, up to 4 mm long, with closely spaced short teeth. Achene 2-3 × 0.5 mm, fusiform, compressed, strongly ribbed and clad in bifid hairs.
Herba perennis, basi lignea, ex caudice multicipiti exoriens. Folia recentia rosulata. Folii lamina linearis, rigida sed recurva, 5-15 cm × 3-5 mm; pagina superior sulcata, atro-viridis, pellicula aurea ubi sicca; pagina inferior tomento albo denso appressoque vestita. Vagina crocea. Involucri bracteae erectae, marginibus fimbriatis, paginis glabris, neryis simplicibus. In disci floribus corollae tubus sensim angustatus, glabrus vel sparsim villosus; pars sterilis styli brachiorum breve triangulata. Pappi setae ad 4 mm longae. Achenia 2-3 × 0.5 mm fusiformia pilis bifidis vestita.

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Celmisia insignis var. dura G.Simpson & J.S.Thomson
Celmisia vespertina Given
Celmisia insignis var. dura G.Simpson & J.S.Thomson
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1 January 2000
9 May 2006
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