Class
Family
Genus
Classification
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Colobanthus affinis (Hook.) Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. III. (Fl. Tasman.) Part I, 45 (1855)
Synonymy:
- ≡ Spergula affinis Hook., Icon. Pl. 3: t. 266 (1840)
Description
Clumps several cm. across formed of one or more plants. Branches many, mostly short, occ. 3, rarely 5 cm. long, clothed with old lf-bases. Lvs soft, ± grassy; sheath short, broad; blade 5–15–35 mm. long, linear, ending in short but definite apiculate tip. Peduncles about = lvs or longer. Fls very broad; sepals 5, ± 3 mm. long, much broader than lvs, ovate, obtuse or at most subacute, often purple-bordered; capsule valves up to ⅓ longer than sepals when fully open; seeds with very low rounded papillae only.
[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1.]
Biostatus
Indigenous (Non-endemic)
Phenology
Flowering: Dec.–Jan.; Fruiting: Dec.–Apr.
Bibliography
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. [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. [Not Threatened]
Hooker, J.D. 1855–1857 ("1860"): 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. III. Flora Tasmaniae. Vol. I. Dicoteledones. Lovell Reeve, London.
Icones Plantarum; or Figures, with Brief Descriptive Characters and Remarks of New or Rare Plants. London.
