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Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Senecio ×spedenii Petrie

S. spedenii Petrie in T.N.Z.I. 55, 1924, 434.

Type: W, 3388.

Compactly branched shrub c. 45 cm. tall; branchlets grooved, tomentose when young. Lvs close-set, narrow obovate-oblong, coriac.; lamina 10-15×4-6 mm., spreading from erect sheathing base c. 1 cm. long, obtuse to subacute, glab. above when mature, clad in whitish appressed tomentum below; midrib and veins obscured. Infl. flat-topped; capitula c. 8, up to 1·5 cm. diam., solitary or paired at tips of slender bracted branchlets c. 5 cm. long; phyll. linear-oblong, obtuse to subacute, tomentose on back. Ray-florets c. 10, ligules yellow, c. 1 cm. long. Achenes linear, compressed, striate; sparsely to rather densely pubescent, 1·5-2 mm. long; pappus-hairs sordid-white, stiff, up to 6 mm. long, densely and coarsely barbellate.

DIST.: S. Described from a cultivated plant collected by J. Speden near Minor Peak, Richardson Range. Status uncertain.

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