Brachyglottis bidwillii

Brachyglottis bidwillii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Asterids
Order:	Asterales
Family:	Asteraceae
Tribe:	Senecioneae
Genus:	Brachyglottis
Species:	B. bidwillii
Binomial name
	Brachyglottis bidwillii; (Hook.f.) B.Nord.[1]
Synonyms
	Senecio bidwillii

Brachyglottis bidwillii is a species of flowering plant in the aster family, Asteraceae. It is endemic to New Zealand.[1]

It is a shrub growing up to a meter tall. The branches are thick and the smaller branches and petioles are covered in whitish or pale brownish hairs. The leathery oval leaves are up to 2.5 centimeters long. They are shiny and hairless on the upper surfaces and woolly-haired on the undersides. The inflorescence is a panicle of bell-shaped flower heads containing disc florets. The fruit is an achene up to 8 millimeters long including its pappus of barbed white hairs.[1]

The shrub is a dominant species in the scrub habitat of the mountain ranges surrounding Nelson on the northern South Island.[2] It also grows in open grassland in Arthur's Pass National Park.[3]

References

Brachyglottis bidwillii. NZ Flora.
Williams, P. A. (1993). The subalpine and alpine vegetation on the Central Sedimentary Belt of Paleozoic rocks in north-west Nelson, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 31(1), 65-90.
Norton, D. A. and P. J. de Lange. (2003). A new species of Coprosma (Rubiaceae) from the South Island, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 41(2), 223-31.

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[nzf-1] Brachyglottis bidwillii. NZ Flora.

[2] Williams, P. A. (1993). The subalpine and alpine vegetation on the Central Sedimentary Belt of Paleozoic rocks in north-west Nelson, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 31(1), 65-90.

[3] Norton, D. A. and P. J. de Lange. (2003). A new species of Coprosma (Rubiaceae) from the South Island, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 41(2), 223-31.