Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Lamiales Bromhead
Family
Calceolariaceae
Genus
Jovellana L.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Jovellana sinclairii (Hook.) Kraenzl. (1907)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Calceolaria sinclairii Hook., Icon. Pl. 6, t. 561 (1843)
Vernacular Name(s):
New Zealand calceolaria
 Description

Herb or subshrub softly woody in lower parts, ± glandular-pubescent, up to 3 dm. tall. Stems laxly branched, slender, sprawling to scandent, up to ± 5 dm. long; branches very slender, finely striate. Lvs opp.; lamina thin to very thin, (2)–5–(8) × 2–3–(5) cm., of ovate order (varying on the same plant from narrow- to broad-ovate to ovate-oblong to ovate-elliptic, some plants more regular as to main shape), apiculate, coarsely 2–3 crenate-serrate, occ. lobed, abruptly narrowed into slender petiole ± 1–8 cm. long, often bearing minute lflts in axils. Infl. a slender, terminal, us. several-fld panicle, ± trichotomously branched, up to c. 15 cm. long. Pedicels often capillary, up to c. 2 cm. long. Calyx subcampanulate, c. 2 mm. long, deeply cut into ovate to deltoid lobes. Corolla white to yellow-flushed, spotted purple, puberulous, divided c. 1/3 to 1/2 way into 2 nearly equal concave lips c. 5–10 mm. long. Anthers suborbicular, filaments short. Capsule obovoid, c. 4 mm. long.

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

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Phenology

Fruiting: Oct.–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. [Not threatened]
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.
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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. [Declining]
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