Class
Order
Family
Genus
Classification
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Veronica amplexicaulis f. hirta (Garn.-Jones & Molloy) Garn.-Jones, Taxon 56: 576 (2007)
Description
Shrub c. 30 cm. tall with spreading branches. Branchlets stout, covered with dense rather long pubescence, length of internodes 2–3 × diam. Lvs patent or reflexed, c. 18 × 8 mm., oblong, thick and glaucous, those near infl. sts broader and ovate; lf-bud without sinus, lf subcordate at base; lamina obtuse, entire, covered on both sides with dense hairy pubescence that is shorter or absent on reddish margins, midrib obscure. Infls lateral, simple, compact spikes 15–20 mm. long projecting well beyond lvs on villous peduncles c. 2.5 cm. long. Fls sessile, bracts and calyx-lobes c. 3 × 2 mm., ovate, subacute, pubescent all over. Corolla white, tube narrow, slightly > calyx, = narrow spreading lobes. Ovary pubescent, capsule (seen only in garden plant) rounded, ± didymous, pubescent above, scarcely = calyx.
[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1 as Hebe allanii Cockayne]
Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
Bibliography
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. [Naturally Uncommon]
Garnock-Jones, P.J.; Albach, D.; Briggs, B.G. 2007: Botanical names in Southern Hemisphere Veronica (Plantaginaceae): sect. Detzneria, ect. Hebe, and sect. Labiatoides. Taxon 56: 571–582.
