Pachystegia insignis

Pachystegia insignis is a species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.[2] It is endemic to New Zealand.[3]

Pachystegia insignis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Pachystegia
Species:
P. insignis
Binomial name
Pachystegia insignis

Taxonomy

The species was first described by Joseph Dalton Hooker in 1855, who named the species Olearia insignis.[1] It was recognised as a member of the genus Pachystegia by Thomas Frederic Cheeseman, whose description was posthumously published in the Manual of the New Zealand Flora (second edition) in 1925.[1]

Description

Cheeseman described the species as follows:

A low robust spreading shrub 1-6 ft. high, rarely more; branches stout, densely tomentose. Leaves crowded at the ends of the branches, 3-7 in. long, 1-4 in. broad, oblong or oblong-ovate or narrow-obovate, obtuse, equal or unequal at the base, quite entire, excessively thick and coriaceous, glabrous and shining above, under-surface thickly clothed with white appressed tomentum, becoming fulvous or red when dry, veins evident on both surfaces; petiole 4-2in. long, stout. Peduncles 1-5 at the ends of the branches, 4-12 in. long, stout, evenly tomentose, naked or with a few foliaceous bracts immediately below the head. Head large, hemispherical, 2-3in. diam.; involucral scales imbricated in many series, tomentose. Ray-florets very numerous; ligules narrow, white. Disc-florets yellow. Pappus of one series of equal scabrid hairs thickened at the tips. Achenes long and slender, silky.[1]

References

  1. Cheeseman, T. F. (1925), Oliver, W. R. B. (ed.), Manual of the New Zealand Flora (2nd ed.), New Zealand Government, p. 910-911, OCLC 1129885839, Wikidata Q115528659
  2. UniProt. "Pachystegia insignis". Retrieved 2010-04-04.
  3. "Pachystegia insignis (Hook.f.) Cheeseman". www.nzor.org.nz. Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research. Retrieved 2019-05-06.

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