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Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Tribe Astereae

Tribe ASTEREAE

Capitula heterogamous, mostly radiate; corolla us. yellow; disk-florets perfect, tubular; ray-florets ligulate, pistillate, sts absent. Pappus of capillary hairs or chaffy scales or 0. Style-arms flattened, appendiculate, papillose, us. densely hairy towards tips. Stigmatic lines distinct. Anthers obtuse to sagittate. Phyll. herbaceous to chartaceous, in several series. Lvs all alt., us. entire.

Key

1
♀ all tubular
2
♀ all ligulate, forming a ± distinct ray
3
2
Plant a herb, soft-wooded at base; indumentum of lvs very dense, woolly
10. HAASTIA
Plant a shrub or tree; indumentum otherwise
8. OLEARIA
3
Pappus 0 or of minute scales; plant a small rosette herb
4
Pappus of ∞ long hairs; plant a shrub or tree or large herb
5
4
Achenes not beaked
3. BRACHYCOME
Achenes distinctly beaked
4. LAGENOPHORA
5
Lvs all or nearly all radical
6
Lvs mostly or all cauline
7
6
Capitula in racemes
5. PLEUROPHYLLUM
Capitula solitary
6. CELMISIA
7
Plant a herb, at most soft-wooded at base
8
Plant a tree or hard-wooded shrub
9
8
Plant low-growing with prostrate rambling branches
6. CELMISIA
Plant erect, bushy, with ascending branches
7. VITTADINIA
9
Phyll. small, pappus-hairs unequal
8. OLEARIA
Phyll. large, pappus-hairs equal
9. PACHYSTEGIA
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