Shawia moschata (Hook.f.) Saldivia & Nicol

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Name scientific

Shawia moschata (Hook.f.) Saldivia & Nicol, Phytoneuron 2025-49: 14 (2025)

Preferred name

Shawia moschata (Hook.f.) Saldivia & Nicol

Taxonomy reference

Saldivia, P.; Nicol, D.A. 2025: Reinstatement, broader circumscription, and infrageneric classification of Shawia (Astereae, Celmisiinae), a large woody genus endemic to Australasia. Phytoneuron 2025-49: 1–43 (online). (Published online: 11 September 2025)

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Combination authors

Saldivia & Nicol

Original authors

Hook.f.

Authors

(Hook.f.) Saldivia & Nicol

Publication place

Year published

2025

Publication page

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Olearia moschata Hook.f.

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Shawia moschata

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Asterales

Family

Compositae

Genus

Shawia

Species

moschata

Vernacular names

Language of use: English

Musky tree daisy

Synonyms

Descriptions

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

Olearia moschata Hook.f.

Description

Shrub up to 4 m. tall, with musky fragrance; branchlets stout, clad in soft white appressed tomentum. Lvs rather close-set, 8-15 × c. 5 mm. including petiole 1 mm. long, coriac., obovate-oblong, margins flat, glab. or nearly so above, clad in appressed white tomentum below. Capitula 6-7 × 5-6 mm., on slender tomentose pedicels, c. 20-30 per corymb. Phyll. in 2-4 series; lower short, ovate, pilose; inner narrow-oblong, pilose to glab., up to 4 mm. long. Florets 12-20 per capitulum, ray-florets up to 12; achenes ribbed, pilose, 3 mm. long; pappus-hairs up to 6 mm. long.

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