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Helichrysum filicaule Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 140, t. 36B (1852)
Helichrysum filicaule Hook.f.
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.

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Endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region

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Hook.f.
Hook.f.
Hooker, J.D. 1852–1853 ("1853"): The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H.M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror in the Years 1839–1843, under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross. II. Flora Novae-Zelandiae. Part I. Flowering plants. Lovell Reeve, London.
1852
140, t. 36B
ICN
Helichrysum filicaule Hook.f.
species
Helichrysum filicaule

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Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Asterales
Compositae
Helichrysum
filicaule

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

Helichrysum filicaule Hook.f.

Main stems prostrate, creeping and rooting, up to 3 dm. long (sts lianoid under shrubs), c. 1-2 mm. diam.; branches decumbent to erect, up to 25 cm. long, c. 1 mm. diam.; with sparse cottony tomentum to glab. Lvs oblong to obovate, up to 1·5 cm. × 5 mm., glab. above when mature, clad in dense soft cobwebby white tomentum below, abruptly mucronate at apex, subsessile with semiamplexicaul base. Scapes densely tomentose, filiform, up to 5 cm. long, with or without minute bracts. Capitula up to 1 cm. diam.; phyll. in 4-5 series; outer short, oblong, densely tomentose on back; inner linear-oblong, scarious, stramineous with brown tips, tomentose on midrib at back, ciliolate on margins. Receptacle 1-2 mm. diam., shallowly convex, alveolate; perfect florets ∞, ♀ few. Achenes compressed, filiform, seldom up to 1 mm. long, papillose-pubescent; pappus-hairs up to 5 mm. long, very slender.
Dawson, M.I. 2008: Index of chromosome numbers of indigenous New Zealand vascular plants.

Helichrysum filicaule Hook.f.

2n = 28
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.

Helichrysum filicaule Hook.f.

Prostrate herb, (2)-5-15 cm tall; prostrate stems rooting; erect flowering stems tomentose, c. 0.5-1 mm diam. Lvs spreading, distant, usually glabrous on upper surface, rarely sparsely to moderately tomentose, white- tomentose on lower, apetiolate, elliptic-obovate, or elliptic, mucronate, amplexicaul, (2)-3-7-(12) × (1.5)-2-3.5-(5) mm. Uppermost lvs on flowering branches smaller and more distant. Capitula 3-7 mm diam., solitary, pedunculate. Middle involucral bracts hairy, oblong, obtuse to acute, not radiating, with pale brown and membranous lamina, and stereome green or tinged pink, 4-6 mm long. Disc pale yellow. Achenes minutely papillate, obovoid- cylindric, c. 1 mm long.

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Gnaphalium filicaule Hook.f.
Gnaphalium filicaule Hook.f.
Allan Herbarium (2007)
Helichrysum filicaule Hook.f.
Gnaphalium L.
Gnaphalium filicaule Hook.f.
Gnaphalium filicaule Hook.f.
Allan, H.H. (1961)
Helichrysum filicaule Hook.f.
Helichrysum filicaule Hook.f.
Helichrysum filicaule Hook.f.
Allan Herbarium (2007)
Helichrysum filicaule Hook.f.
Helichrysum Mill.
Helichrysum filicaule Hook.f.
Helichrysum filicaule Hook.f.
Allan, H.H. (1961)
Helichrysum filicaule Hook.f.
Helichrysum filicaule Hook.f.
Dawson, M.I. (2008)
Helichrysum Mill.
Helichrysum filicaule Hook.f.
Helichrysum filicaule Hook.f.
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R. et al. (2013)
Helichrysum filicaule Hook.f.
Helichrysum filicaule Hook.f.
Helichrysum filicaule Hook.f.
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R. et al. (2018)
Helichrysum filicaule Hook.f.
Helichrysum filicaule Hook.f.
Helichrysum filicaule Hook.f.
Webb, C.J.; Sykes, W.R.; Garnock-Jones, P.J. (1988)

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Gnaphalium filicaule Hook.f.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
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New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
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New Zealand
Wellington Land District
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New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
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New Zealand
Gisborne Land District
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New Zealand
Hawke's Bay Land District
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New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
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New Zealand
Nelson Land District
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New Zealand
Otago Land District
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New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
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New Zealand
Southland Land District
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New Zealand
Taranaki Land District
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New Zealand
Wellington Land District
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New Zealand
Westland Land District
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c67b4629-0238-4f38-a4b1-983661f7b5d1
scientific name
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1 January 2000
20 April 2004
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