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Leptinella filiformis (Hook.f.) D.G.Lloyd & C.J.Webb

Asteraceae · New Zealand South

Cited as Kew's World Checklist cites it, Leptinella filiformis (Hook.f.) D.G.Lloyd & C.J.Webb: GBIF's backbone key for this page carries the name with another author, (Hook.fil.) D.G.Lloyd & C.J.Webb.

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Leptinella filiformis, photograph P.B. Heenan, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsLeptinella filiformis, photograph P.B. Heenan, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsLeptinella filiformis, photograph Jan Clayton-Green, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsLeptinella filiformis, photograph Jan Clayton-Green, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsLeptinella filiformis, photograph Mike Dickison (@adzebill), CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons 6 photographs ›

Summary

Leptinella filiformis, or slender button daisy, is a species of flowering plant in the daisy family, found only in the north-eastern part of the South Island of New Zealand. Thought to be extinct by the 1980s, it was rediscovered growing on a Hanmer Springs hotel lawn in 1998, and in the wild in 2015.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Leptinella filiformis", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 5 of the 6 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeNew Zealand South · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker-42.522, 172.831 · in the densest population, 5 records (83% of those in range)
Kew's description“temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 6 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 3 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker in the same place. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 5 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 6 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: P.B. Heenan, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2); Jan Clayton-Green, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2); Mike Dickison (@adzebill), CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Other Leptinella 16 in the reference

Leptinella albida Leptinella albida Asteraceae Photo: CC BY, Leon PerrieLeptinella atrata Leptinella atrata Asteraceae Photo: CC BY, Liadan DickieLeptinella calcarea Leptinella calcarea Asteraceae Photo: CC0, author not statedLeptinella dendyi Leptinella dendyi Asteraceae Photo: CC BY, Flavien SaboureauLeptinella dioica Leptinella dioica Hairless Leptinella Photo: CC BY, Felix CollinsLeptinella dispersa Leptinella dispersa Asteraceae Photo: CC BY, Angus CampbellLeptinella minor Leptinella minor Banks Peninsula Button Daisy Photo: CC BY, BenLeptinella nana Leptinella nana Button daisy Photo: CC BY, Oscar DoveLeptinella pectinata Leptinella pectinata Asteraceae Photo: CC BY, Irisa HudsonLeptinella potentillina Leptinella potentillina Asteraceae Photo: CC0, author not statedLeptinella pusilla Leptinella pusilla Asteraceae Photo: CC BY, John BarklaLeptinella pyrethrifolia Leptinella pyrethrifolia Asteraceae Photo: CC BY, fmunoz all 17 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Cotula filiformis. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Asteraceae
Described by
(Hook.f.) D.G.Lloyd & C.J.Webb
Native to
New Zealand South
Wild records
6 in range · 3 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22GBIF's key 3097530 is Leptinella filiformis (Hook.fil.) D.G.Lloyd & C.J.Webb; the page links Kew's Leptinella filiformis (Hook.f.) D.G.Lloyd & C.J.Webb, and the name is cited as Kew cites it
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 4 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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