Brachyglottis revoluta
Synonyms
Senecio revolutum Kirk, Senecio robustus Buchanan nom. illegit., Senecio revolutus Kirk
Family
Asteraceae
Flora category
Vascular – Native
Endemic taxon
Yes
Endemic genus
No
Endemic family
No
Structural class
Trees & Shrubs - Dicotyledons
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.
BRAREV
Chromosome number
2n = 60
Current conservation status
The conservation status of all known New Zealand vascular plant taxa at the rank of species and below were reassessed in 2017 using the New Zealand Threat Classification System (NZTCS) – more information about this can be found on the NZTCS website. This report includes a statistical summary and brief notes on changes since 2012 and replaces all previous NZTCS lists for vascular plants.
Please note, threat classifications are often suggested by authors when publications fall between NZTCS assessment periods – an interim threat classification status has not been assessed by the NZTCS panel.
- Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2017 . 2018. Peter J. de Lange, Jeremy R. Rolfe, John W. Barkla, Shannel P. Courtney, Paul D. Champion, Leon R. Perrie, Sarah M. Beadel, Kerry A. Ford, Ilse Breitwieser, Ines Schönberger, Rowan Hindmarsh-Walls, Peter B. Heenan and Kate Ladley. Department of Conservation. Source: NZTCS and licensed by DOC for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.
2017 | Not Threatened
Previous conservation statuses
2012 | Not Threatened
2009 | Not Threatened
2004 | Not Threatened
Simplified description
Low-growing, sprawling grey-green shrub with clusters of yellow daisy-like flowers inhabiting subalpine areas of south-western South Island. Leaves oval, slightly sticky, 3-6cm long, margins curved and wavy, white or tan fuzz underneath. Flowers 2cm wide with radiating yellow petals in clusters projecting above the leaves.
Distribution
Endemic. From Fiordland east encompassing the following ranges - Eyre, Thomson, Livingstone, Richardson, Harris, Hector, Garvie, Umbrella and Old Man
Habitat
Montane to subalpine 900-1600 m, shrubland and fellfield.
Detailed description
Depressed to suberect shrub, occasionally up to 0.5 m. tall; main branches decumbent at base; branchlets erect or ascending, densely leafy, ending in erect stout peduncles approximately 5 mm diameter, up to 10 cm long, clad in linear-oblong foliaceous bracts, terminated by subcorymbose inflorescence. Leaves; lamina 33-60×20-30 mm, coriaceous, about elliptic-oblong, obtuse, glabrous and rugose above, below clad in pale buff to white appressed viscid tomentum; midrib distinct, margins slightly revolute, crenately sinuate; petioles 10-20 mm long, flattened, tomentose, widened to a persistent sheathing base. Capitula 5-15, up to 20 mm diameter, closely arranged on tomentose rather stout pedicels; phyllaries linear, acute, tomentose and viscid on back. Ray-florets 10-15, ligules yellow, broad, recurved; achenes 3 mm long, oblong, sub-compressed, glabrous, strongly grooved; pappus-hairs up to 6 mm. long, finely barbellate.
Similar taxa
Similar to B. adamsii, which is a larger shrub (up to 1 m or more high); leaves are smaller (25-55 x 10-20 mm), stickier, and thicker; geographically only co-existing in the deep south (B. revoluta not present in North Island).
Flowering
January - March
Flower colours
Yellow
Fruiting
February - April
Etymology
brachyglottis: Name comes from the Greek words brachus meaning “short” and glottis meaning “the vocal apparatus of the larynx”
revoluta: Rolled back from margins or apex
Where To Buy
Not commercially available.
Attribution
Description adapted by M. Ward from Allan (1961) and Mark (2012).
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.
References and further reading
Allan, H. H. 1961. Flora of New Zealand. Vol. 1. Wellington: Government Printer. pg. 748-749.
Mark, A. F. 2012. Above the Treeline: A Nature Guide to Alpine New Zealand. Craig Potton Publishing, Nelson. pg. 231.