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Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Cassinia amoena Cheeseman

C. amoena Cheesem. in T.N.Z.I. 29, 1897, 391.

type locality: cliffs from Kerr Point to North Cape. Type: A, Cheeseman.

Shrub hardly up to 1 m. tall; branchlets stout, greyish-tomentose. Lvs ± 6-18 × 2-3 mm., finally spreading, narrow linear-obovate to narrow-spathulate on short erect petioles, coriac., glab. above when mature, densely white-tomentose below, margins slightly revolute. Capitula ∞, in close corymbs, pedicels short. Phyll. in 3-4 series, outer tomentose to pubescent on back, inner with white radiating tips; forming a narrow-turbinate involucre 4-5 mm. long. Florets 4-6; scales of receptacle absent or up to 2, white-tipped. Achenes c. 1 mm. long, pubescent to silky-hairy; pappus-hairs up to 3·5 mm. long, slightly thickened at tips.

DIST.: N. Known only from

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