Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Myrtales Juss. ex Bercht. & J.Presl
Family
Onagraceae
Genus
Epilobium L.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Epilobium alsinoides subsp. atriplicifolium (A.Cunn.) P.H.Raven & Engelhorn, New Zealand J. Bot. 9: 348 (1971)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Epilobium atriplicifolium A.Cunn., Ann. Nat. Hist. 3: 32 (1839)
Original material (according to the protologue): "New Zealand (Northern Island). Damp woods, near the great falls of the Keri Keri river, bay of Islands. – 1833, R. Cunningham". Type (fide Raven, Raven 1976: 190): "Damp woods near Kerikeri Falls, North Auckland, New Zealand, 1833, Allan Cunningham 542 (K)". Allan (1961: 266) included the name E. atriplicifolium in E. alsinoides sensu lato, with a question mark. Lectotype: K000742563 (image available from https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.specimen.k000742563 and http://specimens.kew.org/herbarium/K000742563).
  • = Epilobium novae-zelandiae Hausskn., Monogr. Epilobium 305, t.20, fig.86 (1884)
  • = Epilobium cockayneanum Petrie, Trans. New Zealand Inst. 41: 140 (1909) – as cockaynianum
  • = Epilobium pratense G.Simpson, Trans. Roy. Soc. New Zealand 79: 422 (1952) nom. nov. pro Epilobium parviflorum sensu G.Simpson & J.S.Thomson 1943 – as pratensis
  • = Epilobium findlayi var. pubescens Allan, Fl. New Zealand 1, 265 (1961)
 Description

Stock and main stems woody, us. much-branched, up to 25 cm. long; branchlets pale, slender, erect or ascending, bifariously pubescent. Lvs opp. except in floral region, sessile or nearly so, rather distant. Lamina ± 12–15 × 3–4 mm., pale green, ovate to ovate-oblong to elliptic, thin, glab.; margins rather distantly but distinctly denticulate. Fls ± 5 mm. diam.; calyx ± 3 mm. long, lobes ovate; petals white ± 4 mm. long. Capsules glab., pale green to erubescent, 20–40 mm. long; peduncles slender, 10–20 mm. long, glab. Seeds minutely papillose, with minute narrow process.

[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1 as Epilobium novae-zelandiae Hausskn.]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Bibliography
Cunningham, A. 1839: Florae insularum Novae Zelandiae precursor; or a specimen of the botany of the islands of New Zealand. Annals of Natural History 3: 29–34.
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R.; Barkla J.W.; Courtney, S.P.; Champion, P.D.; Perrie, L.R.; Beadel, S.N.; Ford, K.A.; Breitwieser, I.; Schönberger, I.; Hindmarsh-Walls, R.; Heenan, P.B.; Ladley, K. 2018: Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2017. New Zealand Threat Classification Series. No. 22. [as Epilobium atriplicifolium A.Cunn.; Epilobium cockayneanum Petrie] [Data Deficient; Not Threatened]
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R.; Champion, P.D.; Courtney, S.P.; Heenan, P.B.; Barkla, J.W.; Cameron, E.K.; Norton, D.A.; Hitchmough, R.A. 2013: Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2012. New Zealand Threat Classification Series 3. Department of Conservation, Wellington. [as Epilobium atriplicifolium A.Cunn.; Epilobium cockayneanum Petrie] [Data Deficient; Not Threatened]
Haussknecht, H.C. 1884: Monographie der Gattung Epilobium. Jena.
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Petrie, D. 1908: Description of a new species of Epilobium. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute 41: 140–140.
Raven, P.H.; Engelhorn, T. 1971: New Taxa and New Combinations in Australasian Epilobium (Onagraceae). New Zealand Journal of Botany 9: 345–350.
Raven, P.H.; Raven, T. E. 1976: The Genus Epilobium (Onagraceae) in Australasia: a Systematic and Evolutionary Study. New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Bulletin 216: 1–321.
Simpson, G. 1952: Notes on some New Zealand plants and descriptions of new species (No. 5). Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand 79: 419–435.
Webb, C.J.; Edgar, E. 1999: Spelling New Zealand in the specific and infraspecific epithets of vascular plants. New Zealand Journal of Botany 37(1): 71–77. [as Epilobium novae-zelandiae Hausskn.]