Download Copy a link to this page Cite this record

Astelia chathamica (Skottsb.) L.B.Moore

Scientific name record
Names_Plants record source
Is NZ relevant
This is the current name
This record has collections
This record has descriptions
This is indigenous
Threat status: Recovering
Show more

Click to collapse Details Info

Astelia chathamica (Skottsb.) L.B.Moore, New Zealand J. Bot. 4: 228 (1966)
Astelia chathamica (Skottsb.) L.B.Moore

Click to collapse Biostatus Info

Endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region

Click to collapse Nomenclature Info

(Skottsb.) L.B.Moore
Skottsb.
L.B.Moore
1966
228
ICN
species
Astelia chathamica

Click to collapse Classification Info

chathamica

Click to collapse Vernacular names Info

Click to collapse Descriptions Info

Astelia chathamica (Skottsb.) L.B.Moore

Robust tufted plant. Lvs 60–200 × 4–10 cm., keeled near the sheath, less so in main part of lamina; sheath-base white, with close scales on both surfaces; lamina adaxially silvered green with a metallic sheen, covered with a thin but long-persistent clear pellicle that lifts off in strips from old lvs; abaxial surface with a pale grey satiny indumentum of appressed scales with very little wool, the single main costa on each side of midrib little if at all stronger than midrib and not prominent. Infl. large and erect, most parts shaggy with narrow scales at least when young; lower spathes long; racemes ∞, all spathes except the smallest subtending sub-infls of 2–3 or more racemes. Fls pedicellate and us. well spaced; ♂ pale, tepals to 8 × 2.5–3 mm., strongly reflexed soon after fl. opens; per.-tube very short, drooping around pedicel and so exposing the base of the pistillode; outer tepals scaly externally; ♀ colour not known, tepals more scaly, longer and proportionately narrower than in related spp. Ovary 3-locular; style rather well-developed. Fr. c. 10 × 10 mm., subglobose, orange; matured per. fleshy, the tube retroflexed and much shorter than the persistent, membr., ± curled-under tepals.

Click to collapse Taxonomic concepts Info

Astelia chathamica (Skottsb.) L.B.Moore
Astelia chathamica (Skottsb.) L.B.Moore
Astelia chathamica (Skottsb.) L.B.Moore
Astelia chathamica (Skottsb.) L.B.Moore
Astelia chathamica (Skottsb.) L.B.Moore
Astelia chathamica (Skottsb.) L.B.Moore
Astelia chathamica (Skottsb.) L.B.Moore
Astelia chathamica (Skottsb.) L.B.Moore
Astelia chathamica (Skottsb.) L.B.Moore
Astelia chathamica (Skottsb.) L.B.Moore
Astelia chathamica (Skottsb.) L.B.Moore
Astelia chathamica (Skottsb.) L.B.Moore
Astelia chathamica (Skottsb.) L.B.Moore
Astelia chathamica (Skottsb.) L.B.Moore
Astelia nervosa var. chathamica Skottsb.
Astelia chathamica (Skottsb.) L.B.Moore

Click to collapse Collections Info

Astelia chathamica (Skottsb.) L.B.Moore
[Not available]

Click to collapse Metadata Info

a8f92150-62e0-406d-91b3-e33e88d4779a
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
29 March 2004
Click to go back to the top of the page
Top