Class
Family
Genus
Classification
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Neomyrtus pedunculata (Hook.f.) Allan, Fl. New Zealand 1, 330 (1961)
Synonymy:
- ≡ Myrtus pedunculata Hook.f., Icon. Pl. 7, t. 629 (1844)
Lectotype (designated by Allan 1961, p. 331; or perhaps holotype): Colenso 115 (K000821597!icon) (left hand specimen labelled Colenso 115) (http://apps.kew.org/herbcat/detailsQuery.do?barcode=K000821597). Syntype: Colenso 194 (K000821595!icon) (http://apps.kew.org/herbcat/detailsQuery.do?barcode=K000821595).
- = Eugenia vitis-idaea Raoul, Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot. sér. 3, 2: 122 (1844)
- ≡ Myrtus vitis-idaea (Raoul) Druce, Bot. Soc. Exch. Club Brit. Isles 4 Suppl.: 637 (1917)
- ≡ Neomyrtus vitis-idaea (Raoul) Burret, Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem 15: 493 (1941)
Type collection: ‘Akaroa in nemoribus’. Lectotype (designated by Heenan & Schönberger 2021): P05233350!icon (https://science.mnhn.fr/institution/mnhn/collection/p/item/p05233350).
Vernacular Name(s):
Myrtle; Rōhutu; rōutu
Description
Shrub or tree up to c. 6 m. tall, openly to compactly branched; branchlets glab., 4-angled. Lvs on glab. petioles up to ± 4 mm. long; lamina: (a) ± 15–20 × 10–15 mm., of obovate-oblong order; (b) 6–15 × 4–10 mm., of obovate order-the forms with the larger lvs us. tall. Fls axillary, solitary, c. 6–7 mm. diam., on very slender, glab., peduncles up to c. 15 mm. long. Receptacle subturbinate, ± 3–4 mm. long, us. with 2 minute bracts at base; sepals bluntly triangular, membr.; petals ovate-oblong, white, ± 4–5 mm. long. Berry c. 6 mm. long, broad-ovoid, red or yellow; seeds 2–5.
[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1.]
Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
Phenology
Flowering: Dec.–Apr.; Fruiting: Feb.–May.
Bibliography
Burret, M. 1941: Myrtaceen-studien 21. Notizblatt des Botanischen Gartens und Museums zu Berlin-Dahlem 15: 474–550.
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 Critical]
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]
Druce, G. C. 1917 ("1916"): Nomenclatural Notes: Chiefly African and Australian. Report / Botanical Society and Exchange Club of the British Isles for 1916, 4 Suppl.: 601–653.
Heenan, P.B.; Schönberger, I. 2022: Typification and publication dates of the basionyms of Neomyrtus pedunculata (Hook.f.) Allan and its synonym Neomyrtus vitis-idaea (Raoul) Burret. New Zealand Journal of Botany 60(3): 314–318. (Published online: 2021 (https://doi.org/10.1080/0028825X.2021.1976223))
Hooker, W.J. 1844: Icones Plantarum. Vol. 7. Hippolyte Baillière, London.
Raoul, E. 1844: Choix de plantes de la Nouvelle-Zélande. Recueillies et décrites par M.E. Raoul. Annales des Sciences Naturelles; Botanique sér. 3, 2: 113–123.
