Class
Family
Genus
Classification
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Coriaria pottsiana W.R.B.Oliv., Rec. Domin. Mus. 1: 24 (1942)
Description
Low-growing summer-green subshrub with slender, quadrangular, branching stems up to ± 4 dm. long, arising from slender, branched rhizomes. Branches and branchlets very slender. Lvs opp. distant, subsessile or on slender petioles hardly 0·5 mm. long. Lamina oblong to broad-ovate, ± apiculate, rounded at apex, truncate at base, submembr., us. purplish, (5)–6–8–(9) × (4)–5–6–(9) mm., margins sinuate-undulate. Racemes terminal on stems and sts on main branches, 4–14 cm. long. Fls distant, on slender pedicels up to 7 mm. long; sepals broad-ovate, ± toothed, c. 1·5 mm. long; petals similar; carpels 5, ribbed.
[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1.]
Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
Bibliography
Connor, H.E. 1977: The Poisonous Plants in New Zealand. Edition 2. Government Printer, Wellington.
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]
Oliver, W.R.B. 1942: The genus Coriaria in New Zealand. Records of the Dominion Museum, Wellington 1: 21–43.
