Gnaphalium nitidulum Hook.f.

Details

Name scientific

Gnaphalium nitidulum Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 154 (1864)

Preferred name

Argyrotegium nitidulum (Hook.f.) J.M.Ward & Breitw.

Taxonomy reference

Ward, J.M.; Breitwieser, I.; Flann, C. 2003: Argyrotegium, a new genus of Gnaphalieae (Compositae). New Zealand Journal of Botany 41(4): 603–611.

Nomenclature

Original authors

Hook.f.

Authors

Hook.f.

Publication place

Hooker, J.D. 1864: Handbook of the New Zealand Flora: a systematic description of the native plants of New Zealand and the Chatham, Kermadec's, Lord Auckland's, Campbell's and Macquarie's Islands. Part I. Reeve, London.

Year published

1864

Publication page

154

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Gnaphalium nitidulum Hook.f.

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Gnaphalium nitidulum

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Asterales

Family

Compositae

Genus

Gnaphalium

Species

nitidulum

Descriptions

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

Gnaphalium nitidulum Hook.f.

Description

Herb up to 10 cm. tall with densely packed branchlets clad in imbricate lvs. Lvs at first erect then reflexed from appressed scarious nearly glab. base; c. 1 cm. long, oblong-obovate; free portion clad in appressed silky shining brown tomentum, with floccose hairs at junction with base. Capitula solitary, subsessile or sessile, c. 7 mm. diam.; phyll. glab., scarious, translucent, inner up to 8 × 2 mm., obtuse, narrowed to base. Achenes linear, narrowed below, c. 1 mm. long, with scattered appressed hairs, becoming glab. Pappus of c. 30 filiform hairs, c. 6 mm. long.

Webb, C.J.; Sykes, W.R.; Garnock-Jones, P.J. 1988: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. IV. Naturalised Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms, Dicotyledons. Botany Division DSIR, Christchurch.