Abrotanella pusilla
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| Abrotanella pusilla | |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Genus: | Abrotanella |
| Species: | A. pusilla |
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| Abrotanella pusilla | |
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Abrotanella pusilla is a member of the daisy family and is an endemic species of New Zealand. [3]
Stock slender, multicipital, or the branches elongate, creeping and rooting; lvs scattered along branches and tufted at base of erect peduncles clad in lflike bracts; ± 1-1∙5 cm. × 1 mm., linear, straight to falcate, spreading to recurved, apiculate to subacute, coriac., glab. to sparsely hairy near sheathing base. Peduncles slender, up to c. 2 cm. long in fr. Capitula c. 5 mm. diam.; phyll. 8-14, oblong, obtuse to subacute, c. 3 mm. long, veins often obscure. Florets 10-25; achenes linear-clavate, 4-ribbed on one face, each rib produced into a short appendage.[4][attribution needed]
Taxonomy
Abrotanella pusilla was collected and described by Joseph Dalton Hooker. The specific epithet pusilla likely comes from the hairy sheathing near the base, as pusilla means 'hairy' in Latin.
