Brachyglottis compacta
Common names
Castlepoint daisy, Castlepoint groundsel
Biostatus
Native – Endemic taxon
Category
Vascular
Structural class
Trees & Shrubs - Dicotyledons
Simplified description
Rare small bushy grey-green shrub inhabiting the Castlepoint vicinity. Leaves 2-4 cm long, leathery, dark green, white underneath, margin upcurved, wavy. Flowers daisy-like, furry, with yellow radiating petals, single or in small clusters.
Flower colours
Yellow
Detailed description
Compactly branched shrub up to 1 m tall. Branches stout. Branchlets and petioles densely clad in soft white tomentum. Leaves rather distant to close-set; lamina 20-40 x 10-20 mm, obovate to oblong, obtuse, narrowed to petiole; margins distinctly to obscurely crenulate and waved; upper surface of very young leaves white-tomentose, of mature leaves glabrous and dull except on margins; lower surface densely clad in soft white tomentum, midrib distinct; petiole 10-20 mm long, slender, channelled above. Capitula up to 30 mm diameter, solitary or in few-flowered racemes with foliaceous bracts. Phyllaries tomentose on back, with scarious margins in upper part, acute. Ray-florets 10 or more, spreading, bright yellow. Achenes 3 mm long, linear-oblong, grooved, scaberulous; pappus-hairs up to 5 mm long, slender, finely barbellate.
Similar taxa
Brachyglottis greyi geographically these species do not overlap.
Distribution
Endemic. North Island, Castle Point, Wairarapa Coast.
Habitat
Limestone cliffs.
Current conservation status
The conservation status of all known New Zealand vascular plant taxa at the rank of species and below were reassessed in 2022-2023 using the New Zealand Threat Classification System (NZTCS) – more information about this can be found on the NZTCS website. This report includes replaces all previous NZTCS lists for vascular plants. Previous assessments can be found here.
- Conservation status of vascular plants in Aotearoa New Zealand, 2023. 2024. Peter J. de Lange, Jane Gosden, Shannel P. Courtney, Alexander J. Fergus, John W. Barkla, Sarah M. Beadel, Paul D. Champion, Rowan Hindmarsh-Walls, Troy Makan and Pascale Michel Department of Conservation. Source: NZTCS and licensed by DOC for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.
2023 | Threatened – Nationally Endangered | Qualifiers: DPS, DPT, RR
Detailed taxonomy
Genus
Family
Synonyms
Senecio compactus Kirk
Endemic taxon
Yes
Endemic genus
No
Endemic family
No
Ecology
Flowering
(December-) January-February (-August)
Fruiting
January-March (-July)
Other information
Plant of the Month
This plant has been featured as a Plant of the Month – see Trilepidea: NZPCN newsletter for February 2021 for the full story.
Etymology
brachyglottis: Name comes from the Greek words brachus meaning “short” and glottis meaning “the vocal apparatus of the larynx”
compacta: Small growing
NVS code
The National Vegetation Survey (NVS) Databank is a physical archive and electronic databank containing records of over 94,000 vegetation survey plots - including data from over 19,000 permanent plots. NVS maintains a standard set of species code abbreviations that correspond to standard scientific plant names from the Ngä Tipu o Aotearoa - New Zealand Plants database.
BRACOM
Chromosome number
2n = 60
Previous conservation statuses
The conservation status of all known New Zealand vascular plant taxa at the rank of species and below were reassessed in 2022-2023 using the New Zealand Threat Classification System (NZTCS) – more information about this can be found on the NZTCS website. This report includes replaces all previous NZTCS lists for vascular plants. Previous assessments can be found here.
- Conservation status of vascular plants in Aotearoa New Zealand, 2023. 2024. Peter J. de Lange, Jane Gosden, Shannel P. Courtney, Alexander J. Fergus, John W. Barkla, Sarah M. Beadel, Paul D. Champion, Rowan Hindmarsh-Walls, Troy Makan and Pascale Michel Department of Conservation. Source: NZTCS and licensed by DOC for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.
2017 | At Risk – Naturally Uncommon | Qualifiers: RR
2012 | At Risk – Naturally Uncommon | Qualifiers: RR
2009 | At Risk – Naturally Uncommon | Qualifiers: OL
2004 | Range Restricted
Referencing and citations
References and further reading
Allan HH. 1961. Flora of New Zealand, Volume I. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledones. Government Printer, Wellington, NZ. 1085 p.
Attribution
Description adapted by M. Ward from Allan (1961).
Some of this factsheet information is derived from Flora of New Zealand Online and is used under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand licence.