Brachyglottis buchananii (J.B.Armstr.) B.Nord.

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Name scientific

Brachyglottis buchananii (J.B.Armstr.) B.Nord., Opera Bot. 44: 29 (1978)

Preferred name

Brachyglottis buchananii (J.B.Armstr.) 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 buchananii (J.B.Armstr.) B.Nord. 1978

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Combination authors

B.Nord.

Original authors

J.B.Armstr.

Authors

(J.B.Armstr.) 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 buchananii J.B.Armstr.

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Brachyglottis buchananii

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Asterales

Family

Compositae

Genus

Brachyglottis

Species

buchananii

Synonyms

Descriptions

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

Senecio bennettii Simpson & J.S.Thomson

Description

Compactly branched shrub up to 3 m. tall; branchlets ribbed, clad as are infl.-branchlets in appressed whitish tomentum. Lvs 5-10 × 3-5 cm., on grooved petioles up to 5 cm. long, elliptic, narrowed towards apex and base, subcoriac., glab. and shining above, veins evident; below clad in appressed silvery-white to greyish tomentum, midrib rather prominent. Panicle up to 25 cm. long, laxly branched, lower bracts foliaceous; pedicels up to 2 cm. long, woolly-tomentose. Capitula campanulate, up to 1 cm. diam., discoid; phyll. linear-oblong, subcoriac., subacute to obtuse, woolly-tomentose on back. ♀ up to 5, disk-florets ∞.Achenes 2.5-3 mm. long, striate, rough-pubescent; pappus-hairs up to 5 mm. long, finely barbellate.