Traversia Hook.f.

Details

Name scientific

Traversia Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 163 (1864)

Preferred name

Traversia Hook.f.

Taxonomy reference

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.

Linked name

Traversia

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

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

163

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Traversia Hook.f.

Taxonomic rank

genus

Canonical form

Traversia

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Asterales

Family

Compositae

Genus

Traversia

Subordinates

Traversia baccharoides

Descriptions

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

Traversia Hook.f.

Description

Capitula homogamous, subcorymbosely arranged, 10-12-fld, pedicels slender, bracteolate, often paired. Involucre of 6-8 rigid and coriac. phyll. Receptacle alveolate. Anthers obtuse at base, cells not tailed. Style-arms truncate, papillose. Pappus irregularly 2-seried, of rigid unequal barbellate hairs, < corolla-tube. Shrub with stout main branches and alt. serrate lvs. Type and only known sp.: T. baccharoides.