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Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Craspedia G.Forst.

CRASPEDIA Forst. f., 1786

Type sp.: C. uniflora Forst. f., N.Z.

Infl. contracted into a dense glomerule subtended by scarious to lflike short bracts; general receptacle slightly convex, bearing short hyaline scales. Capitula ∞, homogamous, discoid, subsessile to distinctly pedicellate; phyll. about linear, hyaline except at extreme base; florets 3-8, perfect. Corolla tubular-campanulate, 5-toothed, white, yellow, or rarely pink to purplish. Achenes turbinate to oblong-compressed, us. silky-hairy; pappus-hairs in one series, plumose, flattened towards base. Rosette herbs with undivided scape terminated by a single glomerule. A genus of a few ill-defined spp. confined to Australia, Tasmania and N.Z. The N.Z. spp. have not been adequately compared with those of Tasmania and Australia.

Key

1
Rosette-lvs with both surfaces densely clad in long woolly or cottony hairs
2
Rosette-lvs not as above
3
2
Tomentum snow-white, floccose
1. incana
Tomentum greyish white, appressed or subappressed
2. lanata
3
Lvs quite distinctly margined by rim of long white hairs
3. uniflora
Lvs without or with obscure marginal rim of hairs
4
4
Lvs not > c. 5 cm. long, us. less; surfaces studded with short subhispid hairs
4. minor
Lvs most or all > 10 cm. long, often up to 20 cm.; surfaces without or with sparse short subhispid hairs
5
5
Lvs membr., glab. or nearly so, seldom > 2.5 cm. wide; scapes slender (1-2 mm. diam.), seldom > 30 cm. long; glomerules hardly > 2 cm. diam.
5. major
Lvs coarser, us. with a few subhispid hairs, 2-5 cm. wide; scapes stout (3-5 mm. diam.), up to 60 cm. long; glomerules up to 4 cm. diam.
6. robusta

Flowering and fruiting occurs from October to March.

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