Flora of New Zealand Series

Senecio geminatus Kirk Stud. Fl. 1899, 350.

Type locality: Upper Awatere Valley. Type: K, "5000 ft., Sinclair".

Shrub up to 1 m. or more tall, branches with papery deciduous bark. Branchlets slender, clad in remains of lf-bases, grooved; young branchlets, lvs, pedicels and phyll. glutinous. Lvs c. 5-8 × 1·5-2.5 cm., sub-coriac., obtuse to subacute, of obovate order, cuneately narrowed to decurrent base, coarsely serrate in expanded portion; venation evident, main veins at narrow angle with midrib, arching. Subfloral lvs smaller, more finely serrate, merging into bracts of infl. Infl. laxly corymbose, capitula ∞ to few, c. 8 mm. long, 10 mm. diam. Florets white, 12-15, narrow-tubular, perfect, campanulate above with 5 linear spreading to recurved lobes up to 2.5 mm. long, > pappus-hairs; stamens exserted. Phyll. c. 6 mm. long, linear-oblong, obtuse, rigid and coriac., margins membr. Achenes c. 1·5-2 mm. long, ribbed, glab., obovoid, very shortly stipitate. Pappus-hairs stiff, up to 5 mm. long, minutely barbellate.

DIST.: S. Montane to subalpine forest margins and scrub from a little north of lat. 41° to 43°.

FL. 1-2.