Belongs within: Celmisia.
The subsection Rosulatae of the genus Celmisia is a group of New Zealand mountain daisies that grow as subshrubs with leaves concentrated in clusters at the tips of the branches (Allan 1961).
Characters (from Allan 1961): Subshrubs with hard woody stems and branches; leaves imbricate along branches, living leaves concentrated in rosulate clusters at tips of branches, sheaths long-persistent; disk-florets yellow.
<==Celmisia subsect. Rosulatae Allan 1961A61 |--C. ser. Discoloratae Allan 1961A61 | |--C. (subsect. *R. ser. *D.) discolor Hooker 1853A61 | | |--C. d. var. discolorA61 | | |--C. d. var. ampla Allan 1961A61 | | `--C. d. var. intermedia (Petrie) Allan 1961 [=C. intermedia Petrie 1913]A61 | |--C. angustifolia Cockayne 1915A61 | |--C. bonplandii (Buchan.) Allan 1961 [=Erigeron bonplandii Buchan. 1887]A61 | |--C. cockayniana Petrie 1912A61 | |--C. du-rietzii Cockayne & Allan ex Martin 1936A61 | |--C. haastii Hooker 1864A61 | | |--C. h. var. haastiiA61 | | `--C. h. var. tomentosa Simpson & Thomson 1942A61 | |--C. hectori Hooker 1864A61 | |--C. incana Hooker 1853 (see below for synonymy)A61 | |--C. lindsayi Hooker 1864A61 | `--C. × poppelwellii Petrie 1915 [C. haastii × C. hectori]A61 |--C. ser. Glabratae Allan 1961A61 | `--C. (ser. *G.) sinclairii Hooker 1864A61 |--C. ser. Lanatae Allan 1961A61 | |--C. (ser. *L.) allanii Martin 1935 [incl. C. allanii var. canescens Martin 1935]A61 | `--C. macmahonii Kirk 1895A61 | |--C. m. var. macmahoniiA61 | `--C. m. var. hadfieldii Martin in Allan 1961A61 `--C. ser. Viscosae Allan 1961A61 `--C. (ser. *V.) viscosa Hooker 1864A61
Celmisia incana Hooker 1853 [incl. C. incana var. nivalis Martin 1935, C. incana var. petiolata Kirk 1899 non C. petiolata Hooker 1864, C. robusta Buchan. 1887]A61
*Type species of generic name indicated
References
[A61] Allan, H. H. 1961. Flora of New Zealand vol. 1. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledones. R. E. Owen, Government Printer: Wellington (New Zealand).