Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Ericales Bercht. & J.Presl
Family
Ericaceae
Genus
Dracophyllum Labill.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Dracophyllum palustre Cockayne ex W.R.B.Oliv., Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 59: 690 (1928)
Synonymy:
Type: New Zealand. Near Kumara, Feb. 1877. T. Kirk s.n. (lecto: AK7028!; isolecto: WELT 44737!, WELTU 4275!), designated by Oliver (1952).
Vernacular Name(s):
Swamp neinei
 Description

Strict, erect, up to ± 1 m. tall; branches slender, bark purplish brown; branchlets very slender, sparingly lfy. Lamina filiform, 20–25–(50) mm. long, apex blunt. Fls solitary, axillary, peduncled, occ. in few-fld racemes. Bracts rather broad; margins conspicuous, pale, ciliolate. Sepals narrow-ovate, ± = corolla-tube which is 4–5 mm. long with acute lobes.

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

 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. [Not Threatened]
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R.; Champion, P.D.; Courtney, S.P.; Heenan, P.B.; Barkla, J.W.; Cameron, E.K.; Norton, D.A.; Hitchmough, R.A. 2013: Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2012. New Zealand Threat Classification Series 3. Department of Conservation, Wellington. [Not Threatened]
Oliver, W.R.B. 1928: A revision of the genus Dracophyllum. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 59: 678–714.
Venter, S. 2021: A taxonomic revision of the Australasian genera Dracophyllum and Richea (Richeeae: Styphelioideae: Ericaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 34: 1–205.