Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Ericales Bercht. & J.Presl
Family
Ericaceae
Genus
Dracophyllum Labill.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Dracophyllum longifolium (J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.) R.Br. ex Roemer & Schult., Syst. Veg. (ed. 16) [Roemer & Schultes] 385 (1819)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Epacris longifolia J.R.Forst. & G.Forst., Char. Gen. Pl., ed. 2. 20, t. 10 (1776)
Type: New Zealand. Dusky Bay, in woods, 26 Mar. 1773. G. Forster s.n. (holo: K000844563!; iso: BM 77,637!, K000844561!, P 34!).
  • = Epacris frondosa Gaertn., Fruct. Sem. Pl. 77, t. 2 (1788)
  • = Dracophyllum longifolium Sweet (1826) nom. illeg.
  • = Dracophyllum longifolium var. retortum Homb. & Jacq. (1833)
Type: New Zealand. 1839. M. Hombron s.n. (holo: K!).
  • = Dracophyllum lyallii Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part II, 169 (1854)
Type: New Zealand. Port Preservation and Thompson’s Sound, D. Lyall s.n.(lecto: K!); Dusky Bay, 1791, A. Menzies s.n. (syn:BM000577675!).
  • = Dracophyllum longifolium var. pluviale W.R.B.Oliv., Trans. Roy. Soc. New Zealand 80: 11 (1952)
Type: New Zealand. Caswell Sound, Leslie Valley, 2000 feet [~610 m], 29 Mar. 1949. W.R.B. Oliver s.n. (holo: WELT 313!).
Etymology:
Refers to the long juvenile leaves.
Vernacular Name(s):
Inaka; Inanga
 Description

Shrub or tree up to c. 12 m. tall with trunk up to 4 dm. diam., but us. smaller without distinct trunk. Branches and branchlets us. slender, erect or spreading. Lvs stiff, us. crowded towards tips of branchlets; sheath ± 15 × 10 mm., pale, passing by rounded to truncate, sts auricled shoulder into lamina ± 10–25 cm. × 3–5 mm., rigid, coriac., slightly rounded on dorsal surface, sts ± pubescent above, tapering to long acuminate apex; margins entire to minutely serrulate. Infl. of erect to drooping 6–15-fld racemes 4–5 cm. long, terminal on branchlets. Bracts caducous, lower long, lflike. Sepals persistent, ovate-lanceolate, acute, ciliate, c. = corolla-tube. Corolla subcampanulate, tube ± 5 mm. long, lobes ovate-triangular, inflexed at tips; anthers included or barely exserted. Capsule ± 4–5 mm. long.

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

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
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