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Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Senecio southlandicus Cockayne

S. southlandicus Ckn. in T.N.Z.I. 47, 1915, 118.

Original localities: "neighbourhood of Balclutha, Gore, Tapanui, etc." Type: W, 605, Gore, Poppelwell.

Stock and bases of petioles clad in long brownish hairs. Lvs spreading to erect; lamina 6-11 × 3-6 cm., ovate-oblong to suborbicular, obtuse, cordate at base, membr.; upper and lower surfaces often purplish, glab. to sparsely clad in delicate hairs; petiole 2-15 cm. long, with mingled delicate and glandular hairs. Scapes up to 35 cm. long, us. several times branched, clad in mingled silky and glandular hairs; bracts few, linear. Capitula 2-4 cm. diam.; phyll. glandular-pilose, linear, obtuse; ligules yellow, up to 2 cm. long. Pappus-hairs up to 5 mm. long, barbellate; achenes c. 3 mm. long, linear-oblong, glab.

DIST.: S. Lowland to montane grassland and open shrubland from lat. 45° 30' southwards.

FL. 12-2.

The status of similar plants on the Dunstan Range requires investigation.

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