Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Myrtales Juss. ex Bercht. & J.Presl
Family
Onagraceae
Genus
Epilobium L.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Epilobium insulare Hausskn., Monogr. Epilobium 300 (1884)
Synonymy:
  • = Epilobium pubens var. minor Kirk, Stud. Fl. New Zealand 170 (1899)
 Description

Loosely matted flaccid herb 3–40 cm tall, often much-branched, creeping and rooting near base. Stems strigillose all round at least in upper portions, also with glandular hairs in infl. Lamina of lf narrowly to very broadly ovate, 0.4–2.6 × 0.4–1.4 cm. Floral tube 0.9–1.2 mm deep, glandular and strigillose. Petals white, 3.3–6.2 × 1.6–3.5 mm. Capsule sparsely strigillose and with glandular hairs, 2.5–5.5 cm long; fruiting pedicel 0.5–6.5 cm long.

[From: Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4.]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Phenology

Flowering: Nov.–Mar.

 Bibliography
de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A.; Courtney, S.P.; Heenan, P.B.; Barkla, J.W.; Cameron, E.K.; Hitchmough, R.; Townsend, A.J. 2009: Threatened and uncommon plants of New Zealand (2008 revision). New Zealand Journal of Botany 47: 61–96. [Declining]
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. [Declining]
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