Class
Family
Classification
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Leptospermum scoparium var. incanum Cockayne, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 49: 58 (1917)
Synonymy:
Lectotype (designated by Schmid et al. 2023): WELTSP029389, L. Cockayne, 4 May 1905, labelled in pencil ‘Awanui Estuary Heath [?],‘Leptospermum scoparium var fructo [?] rubro & foliis pilosis L. Cockayne’ and annotated by Donald Petrie in Indian ink ‘this seems to be the type of L. scoparium var. incanum Ckn’. Isolectotypes: WELT-SP029390, WELT-SP029430, AK5497
Description
"Folia lanceolata vel lineari-lanceolata, circ. 8 mm. longa, subtus praecipue juventute ± pilis sericeis albidis obsita; flores magni petalis roseis leve tinctis. North Auckland Botanical District-Common, especially in the northern part of the district, in many places forming thickets. L. C. . . . As the variety is widespread in its range and frequently occurs in considerable quantity, there can be little doubt regarding its coming true from seed and thus being a valid taxonomic variety."
[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1.]
Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
Bibliography
Chagné, D.; Sara Montanari, S.; Kirk, C.; Mitchell, C.; Heenan, P; Koot, E. 2023: Single nucleotide polymorphism analysis in Leptospermum scoparium (Myrtaceae) supports two highly differentiated endemic species in Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia. Tree Genetics & Genomes 19: 31 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11295-023-01606-w. (Published online: 04 July 2023)
Cockayne, L. 1917: Notes on New Zealand floristic botany, including descriptions of new species & c. (No. 2). Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 49: 56–65.
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. [Nationally Vulnerable]
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]
Schmid, L.M.H.; de Lange, P.J.; Marshall, A.J. 2023: Leptospermum hoipolloi (Myrtaceae), a new species from Aotearoa / New Zealand, segregated from Leptospermum scoparium s. l. Ukrainian Botanical Journal 80(3): 173–198.
