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

S. cockaynei Simpson et Thomson in T.R.S.N.Z. 72, 1942, 38.

Type: BD 29505. G. Simpson.

Compactly branched shrub up to 1 m. tall; branches brittle, ± purple; branchlets at first pubescent, ribbed. Lvs 4-6 × 3-4 cm., on pubescent grooved petioles up to 2 cm. long, obliquely oblong to obovate, obtuse to subacute; glab. above, clad below in thin appressed silvery to greyish tomentum, midrib prominent, margins very obscurely toothed. Panicles terminal, branchlets tomentose, lower bracts foliaceous. Capitula sub-cylindric, c. 1 cm. long, 4 mm. diam., discoid. Phyll. narrow-lanceolate, acute to subacute, glab., margins scarious. ♀ us. absent, disk-florets c. 20. Achenes 3 mm. long, linear, grooved, pilose. Pappus-hairs barbellate.

DIST.: S. Coastal scrub, Westhaven, West Wanganui Inlet.

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