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Celmisia lyallii Hook.f.

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Celmisia lyallii Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 133 (1864)
Celmisia lyallii Hook.f.

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Endemic
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New Zealand
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Hook.f.
Hook.f.
1864
133
ICN
Celmisia lyallii Hook.f.
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Celmisia lyallii

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lyallii

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Celmisia lyallii Hook.f.

Tufted rigid herb with short pseudo-stem arising from us. simple stock. Lvs rigid, coriac., narrow-ensiform tapering regularly to pungent apex; lamina ± 20-30-45 cm. × 6-9 mm.; upper surface glab., very finely striate to smooth; lower surface strongly grooved, densely clad in thin appressed white satiny tomentum to almost glab. (in different plants); margins slightly recurved, entire. Sheath abruptly widened from somewhat constricted lamina-base, 3-4-(8) cm. × 10-15 mm., thin, grooved, clad in appressed white satiny tomentum. Scape ± 15-30 cm. long, rather slender, white with ± floccose tomentum, ± concealed by bract-sheaths. Bracts us. ∞, crowded; lowest lflike, to 6 cm. long, remainder decreasing regularly in size, uppermost c. 1 cm. long, forming a pseudo-involucre. Capitula 25-50 mm. diam.; phyll. linear-subulate, rigid, indurated, ± 20 mm. long, midrib prominent. Ray-florets very slender, ± 12 mm. long; limb hardly wider than tube, 4-toothed. Disk-florets 6-7 mm. long, tubular, lobes triangular. Achenes 2-3 mm. long, compressed-cylindric, strongly grooved; hairs minute, stiff, very minutely barbellate.

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Celmisia lyallii Hook.f.
Celmisia lyallii Hook.f.
Celmisia lyallii Hook.f.
Celmisia lyallii Hook.f.
Celmisia lyallii Hook.f.
Celmisia lyallii Hook.f.
Celmisia lyallii Hook.f.
Celmisia lyallii Hook.f.
Celmisia lyallii Hook.f.
Celmisia lyallii Hook.f.
Celmisia lyallii Hook.f.
Celmisia lyallii Hook.f.
Celmisia lyallii Hook.f.

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Celmisia lyallii Hook.f.
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d16ce105-e502-4587-9b34-9655946472df
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1 January 2000
8 May 2006
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