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

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Name scientific

Brachyglottis cassinioides (Hook.f.) B.Nord., Opera Bot. 44: 30 (1978)

Preferred name

Brachyglottis cassinioides (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.

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Combination authors

B.Nord.

Original authors

Hook.f.

Authors

(Hook.f.) 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 cassinioides Hook.f.

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Brachyglottis cassinioides

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Asterales

Family

Compositae

Genus

Brachyglottis

Species

cassinioides

Synonyms

Senecio cassinioides Hook.f.

Descriptions

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

Senecio cassinioides Hook.f.

Description

Much-branched shrub up to 3 m. tall with deciduous papery bark; branchlets brittle, tomentose when young, clad in imbricating lvs. Lvs sessile, 4-8 × c. 2 mm., coriac., narrow-oblong, obtuse to subacute, entire, glab. above when mature, clad in white to yellowish white appressed tomentum below. Capitula solitary, sessile, terminal, us. < 1 cm. diam.; phyll. narrow-oblong, apiculate, coriac., tomentose, with scarious margins. Ray-florets 4-6, ligules short, broad, recurved, yellow. Achenes 2 mm. long, linear, grooved, glab.; pappus-hairs stiff, slender, barbellate, up to 5·5 mm. long.

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