Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Ericales Bercht. & J.Presl
Family
Ericaceae
Genus
Dracophyllum Labill.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Dracophyllum filifolium Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 169 (1853)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Dracophyllum urvilleanum var. filifolium (Hook.f.) Cheeseman, Man. New Zealand Fl. 424 (1906)
Type: New Zealand. Ruahine Range, 1849. W. Colenso s.n. (lecto: K000844595!; iso: K000844590!), designated by Oliver (1952).
  • = Dracophyllum setifolium Stchegl., Bull. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou 32: 23 (1859)
Type: New Zealand. Auckland, 1843. W. Stephenson 77 (holo: K!).
  • = Dracophyllum heterophyllum Colenso, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 28: 605 (1896)
Type: New Zealand. Eastern side of Ruahine Mountain range, 1895. E.W. Andrews s.n. (holo: K!; iso: WELT 42835!).
  • = Dracophyllum pungens Colenso, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 28: 602 (1896)
Type: New Zealand. Eastern side of Ruahine Mountain range, 1895. H. Hill s.n. (holo: K!).
  • = Dracophyllum virgatum Colenso, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 28: 605 (1896)
Type: New Zealand. Eastern side of Ruahine Mountain Range, 1895. A. Olsen s.n. (holo: WELT 23628!; iso: K!).
  • = Dracophyllum ×vulcanicum W.R.B.Oliv., Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 59: 697 (1928)
Type: New Zealand. Waimarino Plains, 2600 feet [~792 m], 22 Dec. 1923. H. Carse s.n. (holo: CHR 332586!; iso: K!).
  • = Dracophyllum collinum W.R.B.Oliv., Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 59: 696 (1928)
  • ≡ Dracophyllum filifolium var. collinum (W.R.B.Oliv.) W.R.B.Oliv., Trans. Roy. Soc. New Zealand 80: 10 (1952)
Type:NewZealand. Mountains of the Tinline Valley, Nov. 1924. J.H. McMahon s.n. (holo: WELT 55185!).
  • = Dracophyllum filifolium var. centrale W.R.B.Oliv., Trans. Roy. Soc. New Zealand 80: 10 (1952)
Type: New Zealand. Mount Ruapehu, 3800 feet [~1158 m], 7 Feb. 1949. W.R.B. Oliver s.n. (holo: WELT 318!).
Etymology:
Named for the long and narrow filament-like leaves.
 Description

Shrub or tree to c.2 m. tall; branches ± fastigiate, slender; bark dark brown to blackish; branchlets very slender, flexible. Lvs with sheaths ± 10–15 mm. long, narrow, margins submembr., passing by truncate to auricled shoulder into filiform, erecto-patent lamina ± (6)–10–16 cm. × 0·5–1 mm.; apex triquetrous. Racemes ± 25 mm. long, (4)–6–9-fld, terminal on slender lateral branchlets. Sepals ± = corolla-tube, broad-ovate, acuminate, margins ciliolate. Corolla-tube c. 5 mm. long, lobes broad-ovate. Capsule 3–4 mm. diam., invested by persistent calyx.

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

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Bibliography
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Colenso, W. 1896: Phænogams: A description of a few more newly-discovered indigenous plants; being a further contribution towards the making known the botany of New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 28: 591–613.
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Oliver, W.R.B. 1928: A revision of the genus Dracophyllum. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 59: 678–714.
Oliver, W.R.B. 1952: A revision of the genus Dracophyllum; Supplement. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand 80: 1–17.
Stscheglejew, S.S. 1859: Bulletin de la Société Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou. Moscow 32
Venter, S. 2021: A taxonomic revision of the Australasian genera Dracophyllum and Richea (Richeeae: Styphelioideae: Ericaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 34: 1–205.