Haastia sinclairii
Species of flowering plants
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Haastia sinclairii is a species of small flowering plant in the South Island of New Zealand.[2][1][3][4]
| Haastia sinclairii | |
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| Haastia sinclairii in Nelson Lakes National Park | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Genus: | Haastia |
| Species: | H. sinclairii |
| Binomial name | |
| Haastia sinclairii Hook.f. | |
Description
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A small, green plant with a single stem and leaves that seem to surround the stem in slightly revolving circles, with a white flower that can have orange or yellow petals on the outer rim. Prostrate.[5]
Allan (1961)[6] described the species this way:
Plant sparingly to much branched, decumbent to suberect. Branchlets up to c. 30 cm. long, 4-6 mm. diam. Lvs ± patent, up to 3·5 × 1·5 cm., oblong-obovate, subacute to rounded at apex, densely clad in whitish subappressed tomentum, except on adaxial surface of appressed base, upper part slightly thickened, somewhat rugose; veins 5-10, anastomosing above. Capitula c. 3 cm. diam.; receptacle 5-6 mm. diam. Phyll. narrow-oblanceolate, subacuminate, pilose on abaxial surface, c. 1 cm. long. Achenes c. 2 mm. long, narrow-linear. Pappus up to 1 cm. long.[7]
Range
Its known range is in the South Island of New Zealand.[1]
Habitat
Alpine and subalpine habitats. Scree fields, in particular.[1]
Taxonomy
Haastia sinclairii contains the following varieties:
It is in a clade together with Haastia recurva.[5] The genus was named after Julius von Haast.
