Class
Family
Classification
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Haloragis erecta subsp. cartilaginea (Cheeseman) Orchard
Synonymy:
- ≡ Haloragis cartilaginea Cheeseman, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 29: 390 (1896 [1897])
- = Haloragis alata var. cartilaginea Cheeseman, Man. New Zealand Fl. 148 (1906)
Description
Erect perennial herb c. 30 cm. tall; stems many, tetragonous, minutely pubescent, with larger hairs on the angles. Lvs opp., rather closely spaced, broadly ovate to ovate-oblong, coriac., minutely scabrid, blade 14–20 × 10–13 mm., petiole very short and pubescent, margins regularly shallowly serrate. Many-fld racemes terminating branches, lfy bracts subtending clusters of fls and bracteoles. F1. c. 3·5 mm. long, on short pubescent pedicel; sepals pubescent, triangular, exceeding ovary length and reaching halfway up petals; petals c. 3 × ovary length, minutely scabrid on keel; stamens 8, anthers as long as petals, filaments very short; ovary 4-lobed, styles 4, short, erect, stigma covered with short lax multicellular hairs. Fr. c. 3·5 mm. long (including calyx-lobes) subpyriform, smooth and cylindrical above, below swollen into 4 rounded lobes, rugose, rarely and then us. only slightly winged; pericarp woody, loculi 4, 1-seeded.
[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1 as Haloragis cartilaginea Cheeseman]
Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
Bibliography
Cheeseman, T.F. 1897: On some plants new to the New Zealand flora. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 29: 390–393.
Cheeseman, T.F. 1906: Manual of the New Zealand Flora. Government Printer, Wellington.
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. [Naturally Uncommon]
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]
Orchard, A.E. 1975: Taxonomic revisions in the family Haloragaceae. I. The genera Haloragis, Haloragodendron, Glischrocaryon, Meziella and Gonocarpus. Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum 10: 1–299.
