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

G. nitidulum Hook. f. Handbk N.Z. Fl. 1864, 154.

Type locality: "Nelson Mountains". Type: K, Sinclair, 1860. Also collected by W. T. L. Travers in the Clarence and Wairau valleys, alt. c. 1000 m.; and R. M. Laing near Lake Tennyson. FL. 11-1. FT. 12-2.

Herb up to 10 cm. tall with densely packed branchlets clad in imbricate lvs. Lvs at first erect then reflexed from appressed scarious nearly glab. base; c. 1 cm. long, oblong-obovate; free portion clad in appressed silky shining brown tomentum, with floccose hairs at junction with base. Capitula solitary, subsessile or sessile, c. 7 mm. diam.; phyll. glab., scarious, translucent, inner up to 8 × 2 mm., obtuse, narrowed to base. Achenes linear, narrowed below, c. 1 mm. long, with scattered appressed hairs, becoming glab. Pappus of c. 30 filiform hairs, c. 6 mm. long.

DIST.: S.

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