Shawia virgata (Hook.f.) Sch.Bip.

Details

Name scientific

Shawia virgata (Hook.f.) Sch.Bip., Jahresber. Pollichia 18/19: 175 (1861)

Preferred name

Shawia virgata (Hook.f.) Sch.Bip.

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

Sch.Bip.

Original authors

Hook.f.

Authors

(Hook.f.) Sch.Bip.

Publication place

Schultz-Bipontinus, C.H. 1861: Cassiniaceae uniflorae, oder Verzeichniss der Cassiniaceen mit 1-blüthigen Köpfchen. Jahresbericht der Pollichia, eines naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins der Bayerischen Pfalz 18/19: 157–190.

Year published

1861

Publication page

175

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Eurybia virgata Hook.f.

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Shawia virgata

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Asterales

Family

Compositae

Genus

Shawia

Species

virgata

Vernacular names

Language of use: English

Twiggy tree daisy

Synonyms

Associations

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Association type

Associated organism

Association source

is host of

Lopholejeunea colensoi Steph.

CHR (1 records from New Zealand.)

Descriptions

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

Olearia virgata (Hook.f.) Hook.f.

Description

Slender ± divaricate shrub up to c. 2.5 m. tall; branches slender, ± virgate; branchlets 4-angled, sulcate, elongate, opp., ± divaricate, pilose when young. Lvs in small opp. fascicles or occ. paired, 5-10-(20) × 3-5-(8) mm., entire, obovate to narrow-obovate, obtuse, subcoriac., glab. or nearly so above, clad in soft appressed white to buff tomentum below; petioles c. 1 mm. long. Capitula ± 8-9 mm. diam., in opp. fascicles or paired, on slender bracted or nude tomentose pedicels. Phyll. short, woolly-tomentose, in 2-(4) series. Ray-florets few, ligulate; disk-florets 6-8. Pappus-hairs white to reddish; achenes puberulous.

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

Olearia virgata var. implicita G.Simpson

Description

Shrub up to 2 m. tall, with slender loosely interlacing branchlets; lvs 6-8 × 2-3 mm., obovate; upper surface pilose when young, lower surface with thin silvery tomentum; capitula solitary or in fascicles of 2-3, pedicels < 1 mm. long; phyll. glab. or nearly so; florets 6; achenes glab. or nearly so.

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

Olearia virgata var. ramuliflora (Colenso) Kirk

Description

Shrub up to 3 m. tall; lvs us. in fascicles of 4, 6-8 × 2 mm., on petioles c. 2 mm. long, linear-spathulate, margins slightly revolute. Capitula in fascicles of 2-4, pedicels c. 6-7 mm. long, 2-bracteate; florets 7-12; achenes 1-1·5 mm. long, glab. except at tips.

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

Olearia virgata var. serpentina (G.Simpson) Allan

Description

Shrub up to 3 m. tall; branchlets stiff, divaricating, tetragonous; lvs fascicled, c. 6 × 2 mm., obovate-oblong, obscurely mucronate, coriac., glab. above when mature, below clad in silvery tomentum, on petioles c. 1 mm. long. Capitula in fascicles of 2-6 on pedicels up to 3 mm. long; phyll. in 3-4 series, pubescent-pilose on back; florets 4-8; achenes pubescent at tips.

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

Olearia virgata (Hook.f.) Hook.f.

Description

2n = 108

Taxonomic concepts

Name

Cited name

Reference

Preferred name

Parent name

Eurybia virgata Hook.f.

Eurybia virgata Hook.f.

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