Class
Order
Family
Classification
Subordinate Taxa
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Notothlaspi Hook.f. in Bentham & Hooker, Gen. Pl. 90 (1862)
Type Taxon:
Description
Fls in terminal racemes or corymbs, fragrant; sepals erect, not saccate; petals white, spathulate on wide claw; ovary elliptic, ovules ∞; silicles laterally compressed, valves broadly winged above, wings exceeding apex of valves. Seeds ∞ reniform, on long capillary funicles; cots incumbent. Small fleshy simple or branched herbs. The genus is endemic to N.Z.
[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1.]
Key
| 1 | Biennial herb, with single leafy rosette, stem forming compact caudex; leaves rosulate; lamina 2.5–64.0 mm long, 2.0–16.0 mm wide, obovate-spathulate, obovate, spathulate, or elliptic-ovate, teeth numerous; inflorescence terminal, stout, flowers 8-numerous; silicles 7.0–20 mm long, 8.5–18.5 mm wide | N. rosulatum |
| Perennial herb, single rosettes or forming cushions, stems often elongated; leaves rosulate or spreading on stems; lamina 3.5–17.0 mm long, 0.7–6.5 mm wide, ovate to broadly ovate or linear to linear-narrowly lanceolate, teeth 0–6; inflorescence axillary, flowers solitary; silicles 4.3–9.8 mm long, 4.5–8.1 mm wide | 2 | |
| 2 | Numerous closely placed rosettes forming compact cushions; lamina 7.0–17.0 mm long, 0.7–2.4 mm wide, linear to linear-narrowly lanceolate | N. viretum |
| Single rosettes or open, loose cushions; lamina 3.5–10.5 mm long, 3.0–6.5 mm wide, ovate to broadly ovate | N. australe |
© Magnolia Press. Reproduced from Heenan 2019 (Phytotaxa 399 (3): page 250) with permission from Magnolia Press.
Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
| Category | Number |
|---|---|
| Indigenous (Endemic) | 3 |
| Total | 3 |
Bibliography
Bentham, G.; Hooker, J.D. 1862: Genera Plantarum ad exemplaria imprimis in herbariis Kewensibus. Vol. 1. A. Black, London.
Heenan, P.B. 2019: A taxonomic revision of Notothlaspi (Brassicaceae), a specialist alpine genus from New Zealand. Phytotaxa 399(3): 248–260.
Mabberley, D.J. 2008: Mabberley's plant book, a portable dictionary of plants, their classification and uses. Edition 3. Cambridge University Press.
