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Celmisia adamsii Kirk

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Celmisia adamsii Kirk, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 27: 329 (1895)
Celmisia adamsii Kirk

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New Zealand
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Kirk
Kirk
1895
329
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Celmisia adamsii Kirk
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Celmisia adamsii

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adamsii

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Celmisia adamsii Kirk

Tufted herb with simple or sparingly branched stock, pseudo-stem up to ± 6 cm. long. Lamina subcoriac., acute, often with fine apiculus, (9)-10-15-(30) cm. × 10-15-(25) mm., narrowly oblong-lanceolate to almost linear-oblong (diverse forms may occur on same plant); upper surface glab. or nearly so, with ± distinct thin pellicle, midrib broad, grooved, main veins ± evident; lower clad in soft white appressed or subappressed tomentum, midrib prominent; margins distantly finely denticulate, narrowing to petiole up to c. 3 cm. long; sheath ± 5 cm. × 15 mm., veins evident, surface tomentum ± as in lamina, margins floccose. Scape 15-30-(40) cm. long, rather slender, often flexuous, ± flattened, ± clad in floccose tomentum. Bracts us. few, up to 1 cm. long, lamina almost filiform. Capitula ± 3-4 cm. diam.; phyll. linear-subulate to narrow-lanceolate, c. 12 mm. long, margins ciliolate, midrib evident. Ray-florets ∞, up to c. 25 mm. long, tube slender; limb gradually widened to 4-toothed apex, veins distinct. Disk-florets c. 6 mm. long, narrow-funnelform, teeth narrow-triangular. Achenes glab., strongly ribbed, narrowly compressed-cylindric to very narrowly obovoid, ± 4 mm. long. Pappus-hairs sordid-white, up to 5 mm. long, slender, finely barbellate.

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Celmisia adamsii Kirk
Celmisia adamsii Kirk
Celmisia adamsii Kirk
Celmisia adamsii Kirk
Celmisia adamsii Kirk
Celmisia adamsii Kirk
Celmisia adamsii Kirk
Celmisia adamsii Kirk

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Celmisia adamsii Kirk
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49b3e325-8d05-48e4-a28d-8275871f5c0a
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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
8 May 2006
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