Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Dracophyllum uniflorum Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 182 (1864)
Synonymy:
Type: New Zealand. Wairau Mountains, Marlborough, W.T.L. Travers s.n. (lecto: K!; isolecto: CHR 45864!), designated by Oliver (1952). Left-hand specimen.
Vernacular Name(s):
turpentine scrub
 Description

Stout erect shrub to 1 m. tall; branches with dark reddish brown bark; branchlets slender, ascending, rather close-set; lvs imbricate, us. 8. Sheath c. 2.5–3·5 mm. broad, passing by subtruncate to rounded shoulder into erect, rigid, coriac., semiterete lamina ± pubescent on upper surface, 12–15–(18) × 1·3–2 mm., tapering to pungent apex; margins minutely ciliolate. Fls solitary, terminal on lateral branchlets; bracts narrow. Sepals lanceolate, acute, c. = corolla-tube. Corolla subcampanulate, tube c. 5 mm. long; lobes broad-ovate, obtuse, white, c. 2 mm. long; anthers included.

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

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
Number of subspecific taxa in New Zealand within Dracophyllum uniflorum Hook.f.
CategoryNumber
Indigenous (Endemic)1
Total1
 Bibliography
Hooker, J.D. 1864: Handbook of the New Zealand Flora: a systematic description of the native plants of New Zealand and the Chatham, Kermadec's, Lord Auckland's, Campbell's and Macquarie's Islands. Part I. Reeve, London.
Venter, S. 2021: A taxonomic revision of the Australasian genera Dracophyllum and Richea (Richeeae: Styphelioideae: Ericaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 34: 1–205.