Class
Family
Genus
Classification
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Dactylanthus taylorii Hook.f., Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 22: 425, t. 75 (1859) – as taylori
Description
Rhizome up to 30 cm. diam., ± globose, mostly below soil surface, at first lateral but always finally terminal on host root; fleshy and ± starchy within, surface dark brown, without lvs but covered with hard angular papillae; shoots ∞, unbranched, to 20 cm. long, c. 1 cm. diam., covered with brownish sessile imbricating scale lvs; lamina 5–15 mm. long tapering from base 5 mm. wide, entire, subacute, glab., larger, more membr, and redder above. Infl. a capitulum of 15–20 spadices on flat top of lfy shoot, 2–4 cm. diam. including involucre of scale lvs; spadix-axis erect, 2–2.5 cm. long, ± grooved, fls crowded on upper ⅔, more scattered and sts with bracts in lower ⅓; ♂ us. of single almost sessile stamen with 2 filamentous per.-segs, pollen whitish, abundant; ♀ with 2 us. unequal per.-segs, style > ovary. Fr. to 2 mm. long, red-brown.
[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1.]
Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
Phenology
Flowering: Jan.–May.; Fruiting: Jan.–May.
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. [Nationally Vulnerable]
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. [Nationally Vulnerable]
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. [Nationally Vulnerable]
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