Brachyglottis elaeagnifolia (Hook.f.) B.Nord.

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Name scientific

Brachyglottis elaeagnifolia (Hook.f.) B.Nord., Opera Bot. 44: 29 (1978)

Preferred name

Brachyglottis elaeagnifolia (Hook.f.) 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.

Linked name

Brachyglottis elaeagnifolia (Hook.f.) B.Nord.

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Authors

(Hook.f.) B.Nord.

Original authors

Hook.f.

Combination authors

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 elaeagnifolius Hook.f.

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Brachyglottis elaeagnifolia

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Asterales

Family

Compositae

Genus

Brachyglottis

Species

elaeagnifolia

Synonyms

Senecio elaeagnifolius Hook.f.

Descriptions

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

Senecio elaeagnifolius Hook.f.

Description

Shrub up to 3 m. tall; branches grooved; branchlets, petioles and infl.-branchlets clad in pale buff to whitish woolly tomentum. Lvs 6-9 × 3-5 cm., on grooved petioles up to 5 cm. long; coriac., obovate- to lanceolate-oblong, obtuse; glab. and shining above with evident veins, clad in buff to whitish silvery appressed tomentum below. Panicle sub-pyramidal to subracemose, up to 15 cm. long; capitula campanulate to subcylindric, discoid, up to 1 cm. diam., on stout woolly-tomentose pedicels; phyll. coriac., oblong, obtuse, densely woolly tomentose on back. ♀ 0-3, disk-florets ∞.Achenes 1-2 mm. long, angled, oblong, rough-pubescent to nearly glab.; pappus-hairs stiff, sordid-white, up to 5 mm. long, barbellate, especially towards tips.

Dawson, M.I. 2008: Index of chromosome numbers of indigenous New Zealand vascular plants.