Craspedia huriawa
Common name
Riuwaka woollyhead
Family
Asteraceae
Flora category
Vascular – Native
Endemic taxon
Yes
Endemic genus
No
Endemic family
No
Structural class
Herbs - Dicotyledonous composites
Chromosome number
2n = 22
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 | Threatened – Nationally Critical | Qualifiers: OL
Threats
Craspedia huriawa was assessed as ‘Threatened-Nationally Critical’ by de Lange et al. (2018) under the tag name Craspedia (g) (CHR 469764; Pikikirunga), with the qualifier ‘OL’ [One Location]. This assessment is not challenged by the naming authors of C. huriawa (Breitwieser et al. 2022).
Etymology
craspedia: Craspedia is named for the Greek ‘Kraspedon’, meaning an edge, hem or border, because of the woolly fringes of the leaves of the type species.
huriawa: A te reo Māori name referring to ‘Huriawa’ the female taniwha (supernatural being in Māori tradition) of Te Waikoropupū Springs and the interconnecting underground waterways of Tākaka Hill and Golden Bay / Mohua.
References and further reading
Breitwieser I, Courtney SP, Ford KA. 2022. Craspedia huriawa (Compositae/Asteraceae, Gnaphalieae), a new species from Nelson/Tasman, South Island of New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany, https://doi.org/ 10.1080/0028825X.2022.2109975.