Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Asterales Link
Family
Stylidiaceae
Genus
Donatia J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Donatia novae-zelandiae Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 81
 Description

Very densely branched herb with erect crowded stems up to c. 10 cm. tall; forming compact, often broad, cushions. Branches and branchlets very densely clad in white floccose hairs. Lvs densely imbricate, long-persistent, appressed, linear-subulate to ligulate, ± 5–10 mm. long, thick, coriac., obtuse, glossy, ± hirsute at base. Fls sessile, solitary, mostly terminal, 8–10 mm. diam.; receptacle ± hairy at base. Calyx c. 1 mm. long; lobes 5, acute, ovate to broad-triangular; petals 5, c. 2–3 mm. long, white, rather fleshy, ovate-oblong, obtuse. Stamens 2, short, adnate to styles at base; anthers extrorse. Styles 2, short, thick, recurved, connate towards base; stigma capitate. Ovules on pend. apical placentae. Capsule indehiscent, ± 5 mm. long.

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

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Non-endemic)
 Phenology

Fruiting: Dec.–Mar.

 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]
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