Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Tribe Senecioneae

Tribe SENECIONEAE

Capitula heterogamous to homogamous, corolla mostly yellow. Disk-florets perfect, tubular; ray-florets pistillate, ligulate or tubular, or 0. Pappus well developed, of capillary simple or plumose hairs. Style-arms flattened, ± truncate, not appendiculate. Stigmatic lines evident. Anthers sagittate. Phyll. us. 1-seriate, not scarious; a calyculus often present. Lvs alt.

Key

1
Plant herbaceous, may be slightly woody at base
2
Plant a hard-wooded shrub or tree
3
2
♀ filiform or nearly so, not ligulate
♀ligulate, sts inconspicuous or absent
3
Lvs and phyll. glutinous; capitula homogamous without ray-florets
Lvs and phyll. not glutinous, or if viscid the capitula have ray-florets
4
4
Achenes papillose; ♀ with ± 2-lipped corolla
Achenes not papillose; corolla of ♀ not 2-lipped
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