Celmisia walkeri Kirk
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Celmisia walkeri Kirk, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 9: 549, t. 30 (1877)
Celmisia walkeri Kirk
Biostatus
Nomenclature
Kirk
Kirk
1877
549, t. 30
ICN
Celmisia walkeri Kirk
species
Celmisia walkeri
Type: New Zealand. South Island, Dividing range above Lake Harris, 3,500 feet, Otago, T. Kirk s.n. (lectotype WELT SP45260 designated by Saldivia 2023) Icon.: Kirk (1877, loc. cit., pl. XXX)
Classification
Descriptions
Celmisia walkeri Kirk
Sprawling, sts lianoid, shrub with main stems up to ± 2 m. long and 5-15 mm. diam.; branches and branchlets stout, woody, ± invested by persistent lf-sheaths. Lvs slightly viscid, ∞, densely imbricated along branchlets. Lamina (2)-3-5 cm. × 3-5 mm., erect but becoming patent and finally reflexed; narrow-oblong to narrowly obovate-oblong, slightly narrowed to sheath, coriac.; upper surface glab., ± viscid, grooved, midrib impressed; lower surface clad in soft white appressed tomentum, midrib evident; apex ± acute; margins flat, rather obscurely toothed; sheath pale, slightly wider than lamina at apex, 15 × 4 mm., pale brown, thinly coriac. Scape 10-15-(20) cm. long, slender, ± glandular-pubescent; bracts several, linear-subulate, up to 2 cm. long. Capitula 2-4 cm. diam.; phyll. linear, 6-8 mm. long, pale, ± glandular-pubescent to glab., margins ciliolate, midrib distinct. Ray-florets ∞; claw ± compressed, ± 6 mm. long, limb ± 6 mm. long, elliptic-oblong. Disk-florets 6-7 mm. long, narrow-funnelform; teeth minute, triangular. Achenes c. 5 mm. long, subcompressed-cylindric; ribs rather obscure, with minute ascending hairs. Pappus of sordid-white minutely barbellate hairs up to ± 6 mm. long.
Celmisia walkeri Kirk
n = 54, 54 + 3f
Taxonomic concepts
Celmisia walkeri Kirk
Celmisia walkeri Kirk
Celmisia walkeri Kirk
Celmisia walkeri Kirk
Celmisia walkeri Kirk
Celmisia walkeri Kirk
Celmisia walkeri Kirk
Celmisia walkeri Kirk
Celmisia walkeri Kirk
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Notes
typification
Type: New Zealand. South Island, Dividing range above Lake Harris, 3,500 feet, Otago, T. Kirk s.n. (lectotype WELT SP45260 designated by Saldivia 2023) Icon.: Kirk (1877, loc. cit., pl. XXX)
Etymology
After Captain J. Campbell Walker, companion of T. Kirk when he collected the type specimens.
Metadata
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scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
10 June 2023