Class
Order
Family
Genus
Classification
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Euphrasia repens Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 199 (1853)
Vernacular Name(s):
Creeping eyebright; Shore eyebright
Description
Slender, succulent, annual herb usually forming matted patches; stems much-branched, often ± umbellately so; branches creeping or ascending, ± flattened with membranous wings, glabrous or with sparse flattened jointed hairs. Lvs sessile, 2.5–4–6 × 1–3 mm, oblong to almost ovate, glabrous or sparsely white-hairy; upper ⅕-⅓ digitately divided into 3–5–(7) subacute to acute linear segments 0.5–2 mm long, the middle segment usually > lateral segments. Fls subsessile or on pedicels to 10 mm long. Calyx 3–4–(5) mm long, glabrous or occasionally setose at tips, divided c. 1/2 way. Corolla white, (6)–10–13 mm long. Anthers yellow to golden brown, glabrous or with a few marginal hairs; awns small. Capsule < calyx, 2–3 × 1–1.5 mm.
[From: Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4.]
Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
Phenology
Flowering: Jan.–Feb.
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. [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. [Declining]
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]
Hooker, J.D. 1852–1853 ("1853"): The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H.M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror in the Years 1839–1843, under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross. II. Flora Novae-Zelandiae. Part I. Flowering plants. Lovell Reeve, London.
