Flora of New Zealand Series

Cineraria repanda Forst. f. Prodr. 1786, 56.

Senecio georgii Endl. in Ann. Wien Mus. 1, 1836, 169, no. 1023.

Senecio (Brachyglottis) forsteri Hook. f. Fl. N.Z. 1, 1853, 148, t. 40.

Type locality: Queen Charlotte Sound. Type: P?. The specimen at K is a branch with lvs and infl. Lvs (near infl.) ± 8 ×3 cm. on petioles 3 cm. long.

Shrub or tree up to 6 m. or more tall, with stout brittle spreading branches densely clad in soft white to buff subappressed tomentum. Lvs membr. to subcoriac.; lamina 5-25 × 5-20 cm., broad- to ovate-oblong in outline, obtuse to subacute, obliquely cordate to truncate at base, margins distantly dentately lobed to sinuate; petiole stout, grooved, up to 10 cm. long. Panicles large, much-branched; capitula c. 5 mm. diam., ∞; phyll. c. 3 mm. long, narrow-oblong to narrow-spathulate, scarious except at very base, pale except at midvein. Florets 10-12; achenes < 1 mm. long, hispid-papillose; pappus-hairs up to 3 mm. long, minutely barbellate.

DIST.: N., S. Coastal and lowland forest, forest margins and shrubland from North Cape to lat. 42° 30'. Rangiora.

FL. 8-10. FT. 11-2.