Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Traversia Hook.f.

TRAVERSIA Hook. f., 1864

Capitula homogamous, subcorymbosely arranged, 10-12-fld, pedicels slender, bracteolate, often paired. Involucre of 6-8 rigid and coriac. phyll. Receptacle alveolate. Anthers obtuse at base, cells not tailed. Style-arms truncate, papillose. Pappus irregularly 2-seried, of rigid unequal barbellate hairs, < corolla-tube. Shrub with stout main branches and alt. serrate lvs. Type and only known sp.: T. baccharoides.

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