Flora of New Zealand Series

Brachyglottis rotundifolia J.R. et G. Forst. Char. Gen. Pl. 1776, 92.

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

S. rotundifolius Hook. f. Fl. N.Z. 1, 1853, 149 non Stokes Bot. Mat. med. 4, 1812, 215 nec Lapeyrouse Hist. abr. Pl. Pyren. 1813, 517.

S. puffinii Allan ex Rehder in J. Arnold Arbor. 27, 1946, 174.

Type locality: Dusky Bay. Type: K, Forster.

Shrub or tree up to 6 m. or more tall; branches stout, grooved; branchlets and infl.-branchlets clad in dense pale buff to whitish tomentum. Lvs very coriac., entire, obliquely broadly oblong to suborbicular, midrib and main veins prominent below; glab. above, clad in dense appressed tomentum below; lamina 4-10 × 4-9 cm., on stout grooved petiole up to 5 cm. long. Panicles up to 20 cm. long, lower bracts foliaceous. Capitula campanulate, up to 1 cm. diam., discoid, on stout tomentose pedicels. Phyll. linear, obtuse, coriac., woolly-tomentose on back. ♀ few, disk-florets ∞.Achenes angled, 2.5 mm. long, linear-oblong, glab. or with sparse hispid hairs; pappus-hairs up to 6 mm. long, rigid, barbellate.

DIST.: S., St., Solander Id. Coastal scrub west of divide from lat. 44° southwards.

FL. 12-1.

The name S. Reinoldi Endl. quoted without reference by Hooker (Handbk N.Z. Fl. 1867, 734) was lost sight of until it appeared in Index Kew. Suppl. 10, 1947, 212.