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

C. fulvida Hook. f. Handbk N.Z. Fl. 1864, 145.

C. leptophylla var. γ Hook. f. Fl. N.Z. 1, 1853, 133.

Type locality: "Canterbury?" (Hook. f. loc. cit.). Type: K, Lyall. Occ. flowering as late as April.

Shrub up to 2 m. tall; branchlets slender, glutinous, clad in fulvous tomentum. Lvs ± glutinous when young, becoming glab. above, retaining fulvous tomentum below; 4-8 × c. 1 mm., linear to linear-spathulate, coriac., spreading when mature from erect petiole, margins slightly revolute. Capitula ∞, c. 35 per corymb. Phyll. in 3-4 series, outer pubescent to glab., inner with white radiating tips; forming cylindric to very narrow-turbinate involucre up to 5 mm. long. Florets 5-10 per capitulum; scales of receptacle absent or 1-2. Achenes hardly 1 mm. long, pubescent to glab.; pappus-hairs up to 3·5 mm. long, slightly thickened at tips or not.

DIST.: N., S., St. Lowland to montane shrubland and grassland from lat. 38° southwards.

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