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Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Celmisia haastii var. tomentosa G.Simpson & J.S.Thomson

Var. tomentosa Simpson et Thomson in T.R.S.N.Z. 72, 1942, 34.

The description of the authors is: "Similar to the type in shape and habit, but the upper surface white with a thin papery tomentum. Habitat: Moist slopes near runnels on the Rock and Pillar Range, Otago, 1200-1500 m. altitude." The type specimen (BD 50011, G. Simpson) is a single rosette with a flowering scape 10 cm. long and capitulum 3 cm. diam. Lamina up to 3 × 1 cm., minutely but distinctly apiculate; tomentum of upper surface of very dense short soft hairs, separating as a pellicle. Topotype material is similar.

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