Class
Family
Genus
Classification
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Dracophyllum scoparium Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. I. (Fl. Antarct.) Part I, 46 (1844)
Synonymy:
- ≡ Dracophyllum urvilleanum var. scoparium (Hook.f.) Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 182 (1864)
Type: New Zealand. Campbell Island, small bush near the sea, 7 Dec. 1840. J.D. Hooker 1611 (lecto: K000844567!; isolecto:BM 577654!; BM 577668!; BM 577669!; BM 577670!; WELT 54858!), designated by Oliver (1952).
- = Dracophyllum paludosum Cockayne, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 34: 318 (1901 [1902])
- ≡ Dracophyllum scoparium var. paludosum (Cockayne) Cheeseman, Man. New Zealand Fl. 425 (1906)
- ≡ Dracophyllum arboreum var. paludosum (Cockayne) Cheeseman, Man. New Zealand Fl., ed. 2, 707 (1925)
Type: New Zealand. Chatham Island, Tableland, Feb. 1902. L. Cockayne s.n. (lecto: WELT 33105!), designated by Oliver (1952).
- = Dracophyllum subantarcticum Cockayne, Veg. N.Z. 265 (1921) nom. illeg.
Etymology:
Description
Erect, up to c. 2 m. tall, branches stout, strict, with dark chestnut-brown to nearly black bark; branchlets strict, crowded. Lvs rather rigid, close-set, crowded towards tips of branchlets. Sheath cililate, thin-margined, (10)–12–(15) × (3)–4–7 mm., passing by subtruncate shoulder into lamina (3)–6–8 cm. × (1)–2–(3) mm., tomentose above, glab. below, gradually tapering to subpungent apex; margins densely clad in silky hairs, very minutely serrulate. Infl. of 3–6-fld racemes ± 3 cm. long, or fls solitary. Bracts broad-ovate with subulate tips and white ciliolate margins, pubescent above near tips. Fls shortly peduncled, inconspicuous; sepals pubescent near tips, ovate, ± = corolla-tube which is 3–4–(5) mm. long. Corolla-lobes ovate-oblong, obtuse. Capsule obovoid.
[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1.]
Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
Bibliography
Cheeseman, T.F. 1906: Manual of the New Zealand Flora. Government Printer, Wellington.
Cheeseman, T.F. 1925: Manual of the New Zealand Flora. Edition 2. Government Printer, Wellington.
Cockayne, L. 1902: A short account of the plant-covering of Chatham Island. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 34: 243–325.
Cockayne, L. 1921: The Vegetation of New Zealand - Die Vegetation der Erde XIV. Vol. 1. Leipzig.
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. [Naturally uncommon]
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]
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