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

S. myrianthos Cheesem. in T.N.Z.I. 7, 1875, 348.

S. cheesemanii Hook. f. Ic. Pl. 1877, t. 1201.

Type locality: Kauaeranga River. Type: A, Cheeseman.

Sparingly branched shrub up to 4 m. tall with black bark; branches slender, thinly tomentose when young. Lvs membr., becoming glab. above, clad below in thin appressed silvery tomentum; lamina 7-18 cm. long, oblong- to elliptic-lanceolate, acute to acuminate, obliquely subcordate at base, sharply and coarsely doubly dentate; petiole 2-5 cm. long. Capitula c. 1 cm. diam., co, in large terminal panicles, on slender pedicels densely clad in dark glandular hairs. Phyll. c. 8, linear-oblong, obtuse, scarious, glab.; ray-florets 4-6, ligules c. 3-4 mm. long, broad, white. Achenes c. 1·5 mm. long, compressed, grooved, hispido-papillose; pappus-hairs up to 5 mm. long, stiff, barbellate.

DIST.: N. Ravines and streamsides, Cape Colville Peninsula.

FL. 11-1.

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