Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Asterales Link
Family
Alseuosmiaceae
Genus
Alseuosmia A.Cunn.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Alseuosmia banksii var. linariifolia (A.Cunn.) R.O.Gardner, New Zealand J. Bot. 16: 272 (1978)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Alseuosmia linariifolia A.Cunn., Ann. Nat. Hist. 2: 209 (1939)
  • = Alseuosmia ligustrifolia A.Cunn., Ann. Nat. Hist. 2: 209 (1839)
  • ≡ Alseuosmia linariifolia var. ligustrifolia (A.Cunn.) Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 103 (1852)
  • = Alseuosmia hookeria Colenso (1844)
 Description

Erect bushy shrub up to ± 1 m. tall; branchlets slender, pubescent, ± close-set. Lvs crowded, on petioles c. 5 mm. long. Lamina submembr., obliquely to subfalcately linear to very narrowly lanceolate, acute to obtuse, of two main dimensions((a) 15–25 × 1–3 mm.; (b) 40–100 × 4–10 mm. Margins subentire or with a few minute teeth, in the larger form the teeth may be coarse and prominent. Infl. of solitary fls or 2–5 together. Fls 10–17 mm. long; corolla-tube slightly flaring, greenish yellow; lobes 4, ± erose and fimbriate. Berry ovoid to turbinate, 3–5 mm. diam., red.

[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1 as Alseuosmia linariifolia]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Bibliography
Cunningham, A. 1839a: Florae insularum Novae Zelandiae precursor; or a specimen of the botany of the islands of New Zealand. Annals of Natural History 2: 125–132.
Cunningham, A. 1839b: Florae insularum Novae Zelandiae precursor; or a specimen of the botany of the islands of New Zealand. Annals of Natural History 2: 205–214.
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. [Data deficient]
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. [Naturally Uncommon]
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. [Naturally Uncommon]
Gardner, R.O. 1978: The species of Alseuosmia (Alseuosmiaceae). New Zealand Journal of Botany 16: 271–277.
Hooker, J.D. 1852–1853 ("1853"): 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. II. Flora Novae-Zelandiae. Part I. Flowering plants. Lovell Reeve, London.