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

S. lyallii Hook. f. Fl. N.Z. 1, 1853, 146.

Type locality: Milford Sound. Type: K, Lyall.

Plant up to 5 dm. tall; stock stout, invested with remains of lf-bases. Stems slender to rather stout, simple, lfy, glandular-pubescent above, terminated by broad corymb. Lvs entire, glab. or nearly so, rather fleshy; basal up to 25 × 1 cm., linear to linear-lanceolate, acuminate, narrowed above sheathing villous bases; cauline smaller, sessile, subamplexicaul; lower bracts lflike, upper linear. Capitula ∞ on glandular peduncles up to 1 dm. long; c. 4-5 cm. diam. with yellow ligules up to 2.5 cm. long. Phyll. glandular on back, linear-lanceolate, acuminate. Achenes linear, 4-5 mm. long, ribbed, ± pubescent-pilose; pappus-hairs barbellate, stiff, up to 7 mm. long.

DIST.: S., St. Lowland, montane to lower subalpine damp grassland, herbfield and bogs throughout.

FL. 12-2.

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