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Celmisia macmahonii Kirk

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Celmisia macmahonii Kirk, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 27: 327 (1895)
Celmisia macmahonii Kirk

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Endemic
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New Zealand
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Kirk
Kirk
1895
327
C. macmahoni
ICN
Celmisia macmahonii Kirk
species
Celmisia macmahonii
After J.H Macmahon, who collected the type specimens.
Type: New Zealand. South Island, Mt Stokes, 3.000 ft., Jan 1893, J. Macmahon s.n. (lectotype WELT SP3285 designated by Allan 1961: 628).

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macmahonii

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Celmisia macmahonii Kirk

Small subshrub forming compact cushions up to c. 4 dm. diam.; stems and branches stout, woody; living lvs in dense rosettes at tips of branchlets. Lamina of narrow obovate-oblong order, ± 20-35 × 6-8 mm., coriac.; both surfaces densely clad in buff to ferruginous long subappressed silky hairs; apex subacute, ± apiculate; margins slightly narrowed to petiole c. 6-7 mm. long; sheath c. 10 × 6·5 mm., clad without in very long hairs, very distinctly veined on inner surface. Scape c. 7·5-12.5 cm. long, densely clad in floccose buff to ferruginous tomentum; bracts ∞, linear-subulate, ascending, up to ± 2 cm. long, lamina floccose. Capitula 20-25 mm. diam.; phyll. ∞, linear-subulate, up to c. 12 mm. long, acute to acuminate, densely clad on both surfaces in long silky buff hairs. Ray-florets ± 12-15 mm. long, ∞; limb oblong, distinctly 3-toothed; disk-florets tubular, flaring at teeth, 5-7 mm. long. Achenes compressed-cylindric, grooved, ± 2 mm. long; ribs clad in long ascending hairs. Pappus-hairs up to c. 6 mm. long, slender, white, finely barbellate.

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Celmisia macmahonii Kirk
Celmisia macmahonii Kirk
Celmisia macmahonii Kirk
Celmisia macmahonii Kirk
Celmisia macmahonii Kirk
Celmisia macmahonii Kirk
Celmisia macmahonii Kirk
Celmisia macmahonii Kirk
Celmisia macmahonii Kirk
Celmisia macmahonii Kirk
Celmisia macmahonii Kirk

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Celmisia macmahonii Kirk
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
Celmisia macmahonii Kirk
New Zealand
Wellington Land District

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typification
Type: New Zealand. South Island, Mt Stokes, 3.000 ft., Jan 1893, J. Macmahon s.n. (lectotype WELT SP3285 designated by Allan 1961: 628).
Etymology
After J.H Macmahon, who collected the type specimens.

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1 January 2000
13 September 2024
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