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Manual of the New Zealand Flora.

Tribe 2. Asteroideæ

Tribe 2. Asteroideæ.

Heads heterogamous, radiate or discoid, or with the ray deficient and then homogamous. Anthers nearly entire at the base. Receptacle naked. Style-branches flattened, produced above the stigmatic margins into a triangular or lanceolate papillose appendage.

A. Female florets ligulate, forming a more or less conspicuous ray. (Ray absent in some, species of Olearia, and dwarfed in two species of Pleurophyllum.)

* Pappus wanting, or of minute scales or setæ.

Herbs. Leaves usually radical. Pappus entirely wanting. Achene narrowed upwards into a neck or beak 2. Lagenophora
Herbs. Leaves radical or cauline. Pappus wanting or of scale-like bristles. Achene not beaked 3. Brachycome.

** Pappus long, copious.

Shrubs or trees. Scales of the involucre in several series, margins scarious. Achenes nearly terete 4. Olearia.
Herbs. Leaves all radical, large, many-nerved. Heads numerous, racemed 5. Pleuro-phyllum.
Usually stemless herbs with radical leaves, but stems sometimes elongated and the leaves cauline. Scapes phyllum.
simple; heads solitary 6. Celmisia.
Branched leafy herb. Heads solitary, terminal. Achene much flattened. Style-branches with subulate tips 7. Vlttadinia.

B. Female florets tubular, in many series.

Alpine woolly herbs. Stems cæspitose or compacted into hard rounded masses. Heads broad, sessile 8. Haastia.