Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Brassicales Bromhead
Family
Cruciferae
Genus
Pachycladon Hook.f.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Pachycladon enysii (Cheeseman) Heenan & A.D.Mitch. in Heenan et al., New Zealand J. Bot. 40: 557 (2002)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Cardamine enysii Cheeseman in Kirk, Stud. Fl. New Zealand 28 (1899) – as Enysii
  • ≡ Nasturtium enysii (Cheeseman) Cheeseman, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 43: 179 (1910 [1911]) – as Enysii
  • ≡ Cheesemania enysii (Cheeseman) O.E.Schulz, Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem 10: 551 (1929)
 Description

Depressed herb, up to c. 10 cm. tall. Stock fleshy, c. 1·5 cm. diam., with deeply descending taproot, crowned by rosette of basal lvs. Radical lvs ± 4 × 1·5 cm., oblong-spathulate, subcoriac., sharply serrate to subpinnatifid, narrow into broad flat petiole, stellate-pubescent above and below. Cauline lvs smaller, narrower, sparingly toothed. Flowering stem branched from base; infl. compact, up to 10 cm. or more across. Pedicels slender, spreading, c. 6 mm. long. Sepals 3 mm. long, oblong, acute. Petals ± spathulate, ± 5 mm. long, claws long. Siliques narrow-linear, ± 2.5–3·5 cm. long, ± 2 mm. broad. Seeds compressed, < 1 mm. long, reddish brown.

[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1 as Cheesemania enysii (Cheeseman) O.E.Schulz]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Bibliography
Cheeseman, T. F. 1911 ("1910"): Contributions to a Fuller Knowledge of the Flora of New Zealand: No. 4. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 43: 178–186.
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.
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. [Not Threatened]
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Heenan, P.B.; Mitchell, A.D.; Koch, M. 2002: Molecular systematics of the New Zealand Pachycladon (Brassicaceae) complex: generic circumscription and relationships to Arabidopsis sens. lat. and Arabis sens. lat. New Zealand Journal of Botany 40(4): 543–562.
Kirk,T. 1899: The Students' Flora of New Zealand and the Outlying Islands. Government Printer, Wellington, N.Z.
Schulz, O. E. 1929: Notizblatt des Botanischen Gartens und Museums zu Berlin-Dahlem 10(n. 96)