Brachyglottis ×spedenii (Petrie) B.Nord.

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Name scientific

Brachyglottis ×spedenii (Petrie) B.Nord., Opera Bot. 44: 31 (1978)

Preferred name

Brachyglottis ×spedenii (Petrie) B.Nord.

Taxonomy reference

Connor, H.E.; Edgar, E. 1987: Name changes in the indigenous New Zealand flora, 1960–1986 and Nomina Nova IV, 1983–1986. New Zealand Journal of Botany 25: 115–170.

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Combination authors

B.Nord.

Original authors

Petrie

Authors

(Petrie) B.Nord.

Publication place

Nordenstam, B. 1978: Taxonomic studies in the tribe Senecioneae (Compositae). Opera Botanica 44: 1–83.

Year published

1978

Publication page

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Senecio ×spedenii Petrie

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Brachyglottis ×spedenii

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Asterales

Family

Compositae

Genus

Brachyglottis

Species

×spedenii

Synonyms

Senecio ×spedenii Petrie

Hybridisation

Hybrid name

Brachyglottis cassinioides (Hook.f.) B.Nord. × Brachyglottis revoluta (Kirk) B.Nord.

Descriptions

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

Senecio ×spedenii Petrie

Description

Compactly branched shrub c. 45 cm. tall; branchlets grooved, tomentose when young. Lvs close-set, narrow obovate-oblong, coriac.; lamina 10-15×4-6 mm., spreading from erect sheathing base c. 1 cm. long, obtuse to subacute, glab. above when mature, clad in whitish appressed tomentum below; midrib and veins obscured. Infl. flat-topped; capitula c. 8, up to 1·5 cm. diam., solitary or paired at tips of slender bracted branchlets c. 5 cm. long; phyll. linear-oblong, obtuse to subacute, tomentose on back. Ray-florets c. 10, ligules yellow, c. 1 cm. long. Achenes linear, compressed, striate; sparsely to rather densely pubescent, 1·5-2 mm. long; pappus-hairs sordid-white, stiff, up to 6 mm. long, densely and coarsely barbellate.