Class
Family
Genus
Classification
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Dracophyllum politum (Cheeseman) Cockayne, Rep. Bot. Surv. Stewart Island 43 (1909)
Synonymy:
- ≡ Dracophyllum rosmarinifolium var. politum Cheeseman, Man. New Zealand Fl. 427 (1906)
Type: New Zealand. Mount Maungatua near Dunedin, 3000 feet [~914 m]. D. Petrie s.n. (lecto: AK 7033!; isolecto: WELT 33366!), designated by Oliver (1952).
Etymology:
Description
Prostrate shrub with close-set stout branches, sts forming very compact cushionlike masses: branchlets densely clad in persistent imbricate lvs, bark brown. Sheaths broad, not or very sparsely ciliolate, passing into concavo-convex, smooth, polished, appressed, rigid, slightly arcuate lamina (6)–8–10 mm. long; apex very obtuse. Fls solitary, terminal, almost hidden by lvs; bracts broad, obtuse. Sepals ovate, acute, ciliolate, a little > corolla-tube.
[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1.]
Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
Bibliography
Cheeseman, T.F. 1906: Manual of the New Zealand Flora. Government Printer, Wellington.
Cockayne, L. 1909: Report on a Botanical Survey of Stewart Island. Government Printer, Wellington, N.Z.
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]
Venter, S. 2021: A taxonomic revision of the Australasian genera Dracophyllum and Richea (Richeeae: Styphelioideae: Ericaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 34: 1–205.
