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

C. uniflora Forst. f. Prodr. 1786, 58.

C. fimbriata DC. Prodr. 6, 1838, 152.

Staehilinia fimbriata Forst. f. in DC. Prodr. 6, 1838, 152.

C. fimbriata DC. var. marginata Hook. f. Fl. N.Z. 1, 1853, 131.

Type locality: Queen Charlotte Sound.

Rosette-lvs broad-ovate to elliptic-spathulate, us. apiculate, margins distinctly white with tangled cottony hairs, surfaces ± clad in short hairs, a few long and cottony. Scape-lvs ovate to narrow-lanceolate or elliptic: Scapes 15-45 cm. long, hairs us. short, sts becoming glab. Glomerules 1·5-3 cm. diam. Florets white or yellow. Achenes silky-hairy, sts becoming nearly glab. Pappus-hairs c. 4 mm. long.

Key

1
Rosette-lvs densely studded on both surfaces with short subhispid hairs; scapes densely clad in woolly tomentum, seldom > 10 cm. long
var. subhispida
Rosette-lvs not as above; scapes sparingly clad in woolly hairs to glab., us. > 15 cm. long
2
2
Rosette-lvs mostly c. 5-6 cm. long; scapes up to 25 cm. long; glomerules c. 1·5 cm. diam.
var. uniflora.
Rosette-lvs mostly c. 8-12 cm. long; scapes up to 40 cm. or more long; glomerules c. 2 cm. or more diam.
3
3
Lvs slightly viscid; woolly margins inconspicuous
var. grandis
Lvs very viscid; woolly margins conspicuous
var. maritima

DIST.: N., S., C., Ch.?

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