Biology:Damnamenia
| Black-eyed daisy | |
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| Damnamenia vernicosa as Celmisia vernicosa (Plates XXVI-XXVII Fitch)[1] | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Subfamily: | Asteroideae |
| Tribe: | Astereae |
| Subtribe: | Celmisiinae |
| Genus: | Damnamenia Given |
| Species: | D. vernicosa
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| Binomial name | |
| Damnamenia vernicosa (Hook.f.) Given
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Damnamenia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.[4][5][6][7][8]
The only known species is Damnamenia vernicosa, called the black-eyed daisy. It is endemic to New Zealand (Auckland and Campbell Islands).[3][9]
Description
Damnamenia vernicosa is a small, perennial, stoloniferous herb. It has glossy green leaves and white daisy flowers with dark purple centres. The plant flowers from November to January and fruits from December to March.[10]
Distribution and habitat
The plant is endemic to New Zealand’s subantarctic Auckland and Campbell Islands. Its preferred habitats are upland cushion bogs and Pleurophyllum-dominated herbfields. It also grows at lower elevations in exposed and sparsely vegetated sites.[10]
Taxonomy & naming
It was first described in 1844 as Celmisia vernicosa by Joseph Hooker.[11] In 2012, David Given separated C. vernicosa from Celmisia and from related genera on the basis of its morphology, and allocated it to the new genus, Damnamenia. Given named the genus Damnamenia for the Dactyl, Damnamenius, since Celmisia was named for Celmis, another Dactyl.[4] The specific epithet, vernicosa, is the Latin adjective, vernicosus,-a, -um, meaning "varnished",[12] and refers to the apparently varnished leaves.[11]
Conservation status
The species is listed as "At Risk - Naturally Uncommon" on the most recent (2018) New Zealand Threatened Classification for plants, because of its restricted range).[2]
References
- ↑ Hooker, J.D. (1852) The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. discovery ships Erebus and Terror in the Years 1839-1843 :under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross: 1: Plates XXVI-XXVII
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Lange, Peter J. de; Rolfe, Jeremy R.; Barkla, John W.; Courtney, Shannel P.; Champion, Paul D.; Perrie, Leon R.; Beadel, Sarah M.; Ford, Kerry A. et al. (May 2018). "Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2017". New Zealand Threat Classification Series 22: 42. OCLC 1041649797. https://www.doc.govt.nz/globalassets/documents/science-and-technical/nztcs22entire.pdf.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist". http://dixon.iplantcollaborative.org/CompositaeWeb/default.aspx?Page=NameDetails&TabNum=0&NameId=b5fc9c60-a0ec-49cf-9e4a-631ae230c5e3.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Given, David R. (2012). "Damnamenia gen. nov. A new subantarctic genus allied to Celmisia Casso (Astereae—Compositae)". New Zealand Journal of Botany 11 (4): 786–787. doi:10.1080/0028825X.1973.10430310. ISSN 0028-825X. pdf
- ↑ Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem. "Details for: Astereae". Euro+Med PlantBase. Freie Universität Berlin. http://ww2.bgbm.org/EuroPlusMed/PTaxonDetail.asp?NameId=131772&PTRefFk=7000000.
- ↑ UniProt. "Tribe Astereae". https://www.uniprot.org/taxonomy/199231.
- ↑ National Herbarium of New South Wales. "Genus Kippistia". New South Wales FloraOnline. Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney. http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=gn&name=Kippistia.
- ↑ "Polyarrhena Cass.". African Plants Database. South African National Biodiversity Institute, the Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève and Tela Botanica. http://www.ville-ge.ch/cjb/bd/africa/details.php?langue=an&id=3041.
- ↑ Living National Treasures, Checklist of Endemic Vascular Plant Genera, New Zealand
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 "Damnamenia vernicosa". New Zealand Plant Conservation Network. 30 October 2013. http://www.nzpcn.org.nz/flora_details.aspx?ID=462.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Hooker, J.D. (1844) The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. discovery ships Erebus and Terror in the Years 1839-1843 :under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross: 1: 34
- ↑ Stearn, W.T. (2004). Botanical Latin (4th ed). Oregon: Timber Press. pp. 527. ISBN 9780881926279.
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