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Gamochaeta calviceps

Otakaha Stream, Palliser Bay.<br>Photographer: Jeremy R. Rolfe, Date taken: 15/03/2008, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0'>CC BY</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

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Common names

silky cudweed

Biostatus

Exotic

Structural class

Herbs - Dicotyledonous composites

Conservation status

Not applicable

Detailed taxonomy

Family

Asteraceae

Authority

Gamochaeta calviceps (Fernald) Cabrera

Ecology

Year naturalised

1968

Origin

U.S.A. to E. South America. Also known as Gnaphalium claviceps

Other information

Etymology

gamochaeta: From the Greek gamo- ‘united’ and chaeta ‘bristle, long hair’.

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.

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