Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Lamiales Bromhead
Family
Plantaginaceae Juss.
Genus
Ourisia Comm. ex Juss.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Ourisia macrocarpa Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. I. (Fl. Antarct.) Part I, 198 (1845)
Synonymy:
  • = Ourisia macrocarpa var. cordata Cockayne, Trans. New Zealand Inst. 48: 198 (1916)
Vernacular Name(s):
Mountain ourisia; Snowy mountain foxglove
 Description

Stem prostrate and rooting, 1–2 cm. diam., terminating in a tuft of ± erect lvs. Lamina coriac., 4–15 × 2–10 cm., broadly ovate, regularly and shallowly crenate-dentate, glab.; petiole > lamina, ± fringed with hairs. Peduncle erect, much > lvs, up to 70 cm. tall in fr., us. with whorl of cauline lvs below floral bracts. Bracts in ∞ whorls, becoming smaller and more nearly entire upwards, glab. except for fringing hairs. Pedicels as many as bracts in each whorl and longer, sts > 8 cm. long, hairs if present not glandular. Calyx-clefts slightly to quite unequal; lobes large, oblong to slightly spathulate, obtuse to subacute, us. ± notched, veins obvious, hairs few, mostly on margins, non-glandular. Corolla 2–3 cm. diam., glab. outside, lobes broadly spathulate.

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

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
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