Celmisia adamsii Kirk
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Celmisia adamsii Kirk, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 27: 329 (1895)
Celmisia adamsii Kirk
Nomenclature
Kirk
Kirk
1895
329
ICN
Celmisia adamsii Kirk
species
Celmisia adamsii
Classification
Descriptions
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.
Taxonomic concepts
Celmisia adamsii Kirk
Celmisia adamsii Kirk
Celmisia adamsii Kirk
Celmisia adamsii Kirk
Celmisia adamsii Kirk
Celmisia adamsii Kirk
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49b3e325-8d05-48e4-a28d-8275871f5c0a
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Names_Plants
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