Cassinia amoena Cheeseman

Details

Name scientific

Cassinia amoena Cheeseman, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 29: 391 (1896 [1897])

Preferred name

Ozothamnus leptophyllus (G.Forst.) Breitw. & J.M.Ward

Taxonomy reference

Breitwieser, I.; Ward, J. M. 1997: Transfer of Cassinia leptophylla (Compositae) to Ozothamnus. New Zealand Journal of Botany 35(1): 125–128.

Nomenclature

Original authors

Cheeseman

Authors

Cheeseman

Publication place

Cheeseman, T.F. 1897: On some plants new to the New Zealand flora. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 29: 390–393.

Year published

1896

Year on publication

1897

Publication page

391

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Cassinia amoena Cheeseman

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Cassinia amoena

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Asterales

Family

Compositae

Genus

Cassinia

Species

amoena

Descriptions

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

Cassinia amoena Cheeseman

Description

Shrub hardly up to 1 m. tall; branchlets stout, greyish-tomentose. Lvs ± 6-18 × 2-3 mm., finally spreading, narrow linear-obovate to narrow-spathulate on short erect petioles, coriac., glab. above when mature, densely white-tomentose below, margins slightly revolute. Capitula ∞, in close corymbs, pedicels short. Phyll. in 3-4 series, outer tomentose to pubescent on back, inner with white radiating tips; forming a narrow-turbinate involucre 4-5 mm. long. Florets 4-6; scales of receptacle absent or up to 2, white-tipped. Achenes c. 1 mm. long, pubescent to silky-hairy; pappus-hairs up to 3·5 mm. long, slightly thickened at tips.