Class
Family
Genus
Classification
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Colobanthus squarrosus subsp. drucei Sneddon, New Zealand J. Bot. 37: 200 (1999)
Description
Similar to C. squarrosus Cheeseman subsp. squarrosus in the channelled, inconspicuously bordered leaves, but differs in the greener flowers, more clearly apiculate sepals, and included to only shortly exserted stamens. Styles 1–2 mm long. Plant forming cushions to c. 25 cm diam. Leaf blade (3–)5–9(–11) mm long including an acicular tip (0.5–) 1(–1.9) mm long. Sepals 3–5 mm long, predominantly pale green with translucent or whitish margins, apex with an apiculus 0.2–0.5(-0.6) mm long. Stamens (2.3–)3.5(–5) mm long. Ovary green at flowering; styles 1–2 mm long. Peduncles (2.3–)3–11(–19) mm long at fruiting; bracteoles 3–5(–7.5) mm long with an apiculate to acicular tip (0.2–)0.5(–0.9) mm long.
[Reproduced from Sneddon (1999, New Zealand J. Bot. 37: 195-204) with permission from The Royal Society of New Zealand.]
Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
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. [Naturally uncommon]
de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A.; Heenan, P.B.; Courtney, S.P.; Molloy, B.P.J.; Ogle, C.C.; Rance, B.D. 2004: Threatened and uncommon plants of New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 42(1): 45–76.
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]
Sneddon, B.V. 1999: The taxonomy and breeding system of Colobanthus squarrosus (Caryophyllaceae). New Zealand Journal of Botany 37(2): 195–204.
