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Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Celmisia walkeri Kirk

C. walkeri Kirk in T.N.Z.I. 9, 1877, 549, t. 30.

Type locality: Mountains above Lake Harris. Type: W, 3287, T. Kirk, Jan. 11, 1877, No. 722 to Kew.

Sprawling, sts lianoid, shrub with main stems up to ± 2 m. long and 5-15 mm. diam.; branches and branchlets stout, woody, ± invested by persistent lf-sheaths. Lvs slightly viscid, ∞, densely imbricated along branchlets. Lamina (2)-3-5 cm. × 3-5 mm., erect but becoming patent and finally reflexed; narrow-oblong to narrowly obovate-oblong, slightly narrowed to sheath, coriac.; upper surface glab., ± viscid, grooved, midrib impressed; lower surface clad in soft white appressed tomentum, midrib evident; apex ± acute; margins flat, rather obscurely toothed; sheath pale, slightly wider than lamina at apex, 15 × 4 mm., pale brown, thinly coriac. Scape 10-15-(20) cm. long, slender, ± glandular-pubescent; bracts several, linear-subulate, up to 2 cm. long. Capitula 2-4 cm. diam.; phyll. linear, 6-8 mm. long, pale, ± glandular-pubescent to glab., margins ciliolate, midrib distinct. Ray-florets ∞; claw ± compressed, ± 6 mm. long, limb ± 6 mm. long, elliptic-oblong. Disk-florets 6-7 mm. long, narrow-funnelform; teeth minute, triangular. Achenes c. 5 mm. long, subcompressed-cylindric; ribs rather obscure, with minute ascending hairs. Pappus of sordid-white minutely barbellate hairs up to ± 6 mm. long.

DIST.: S. Montane to subalpine rocky places, rock-clefts and fellfield from lat. 42° southwards, mainly along and west of divide.

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