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Celmisia longifolia Cass.
Family Asteraceae
Common name: Snow Daisy

Celmisia longifolia Cass. APNI*

Description: Perennial herb with dense-tufted basal stock.

Leaves linear to rarely linear-lanceolate, c. 10–30 cm long, 4–16 mm wide, base sheathing, margins revolute; lower surface tomentose, hairs less dense on midrib, white; silvery indumentum on upper surface, ± deciduous and becoming glabrous with age.

Scapes exceeding leaves, to 50 cm high, bracts 1–3 cm long. Ray florets pink or white.

Achenes c. 5 mm long, glabrous.


Illustration
C. Wardrop

Habit
Photo D. Hardin

Flower
Photo W. Cherry

Herbarium
Sheet

Flowering: summer.

Distribution and occurrence: Grows typically at elevations of more than 900 m alt., usually in bogs or seepages; chiefly from Newnes area to Kosciusko N.P.
NSW subdivisions: CT, ST
AVH map***

Text by E. A. Brown
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 3 (1992)


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***The AVH map option provides a detailed interactive Australia wide distribution map drawn from collections held by all major Australian herbaria participating in the Australian Virtual Herbarium project.
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