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Celmisia incana Hook.f.

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Celmisia incana Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 123, t.34A (1853)
Celmisia incana Hook.f.

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Endemic
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New Zealand
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1853
123, t.34A
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Celmisia incana Hook.f.
species
Celmisia incana
Type: New Zealand. Northern Island, Ruahine Range, 1847, W. Colenso 55 in Herbarium Hookerianum (lectotype K 882084 designated by Allan 1961: 622).

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incana

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Celmisia incana Hook.f.

Stems stout, woody, up to ± 10 cm. diam.; branches stout, woody, clad in long-persistent reflexed lvs; living lvs in close rosettes, patent. Lamina (20)-25-40 × (10)-12-15 mm., obovate-oblong, coriac.; upper surface ± densely clad in appressed white tomentum forming a pellicle; lower surface densely clad in similar but more appressed tomentum, midrib evident to obscured; apex subacute to obtuse, often apiculate; margins very slightly recurved, remotely denticulate, narrowed to very short petiole up to 5 mm. broad, or sts directly into thin almost glab. striate sheath c. 10-15 × 7-10 mm. Scape slender, up to ± 10 cm. long, often short at flowering stage, densely clad in floccose hairs. Capitula 25-35 mm. diam.; phyll. linear-subulate, many, 10-15 mm. long, floccose on outer surface, glandular near apex. Ray-florets narrow, up to ± 12 mm. long; limb gradually widening to apex. Disk-florets funnelform, ± 7-8 mm. long, teeth narrow-triangular; anthers us. distinctly but shortly tailed. Achenes 3-3·5 mm. long, compressed-cylindric; ribs rather obscure, clad in rather stiff ascending hairs. Pappus of white or sordid-white slender, minutely barbellate hairs up to 7-8 mm. long.

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Celmisia incana Hook.f.
Celmisia incana Hook.f.
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Celmisia incana Hook.f.
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Celmisia incana Hook.f.
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Celmisia incana Hook.f.
Celmisia incana Hook.f.
Celmisia incana Hook.f.
Celmisia incana Hook.f.
Celmisia incana Hook.f.
Celmisia incana Hook.f.

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Celmisia incana Hook.f.
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Celmisia incana Hook.f.
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typification
Type: New Zealand. Northern Island, Ruahine Range, 1847, W. Colenso 55 in Herbarium Hookerianum (lectotype K 882084 designated by Allan 1961: 622).
editorial
Saldivia 2024 synonymises C. incana and C. incana var. petiolata with C. discolor and C. incana var. nivalis with Celmisia sinclarii var. allanii. Celmisia incana belongs in a complex with C. discolor, C. durietzii, C. allanii and this complex requires more research.

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dcae875a-e025-424a-b80d-1fe962c3d801
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1 January 2000
30 May 2023
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