Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Ericales Bercht. & J.Presl
Family
Ericaceae
Genus
Dracophyllum Labill.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Dracophyllum urvilleanum A.Rich., Essai Fl. Nouv.-Zél., 221 (1832)
Synonymy:
Type: New Zealand. Tasman Bay, on rocks, Jan. 1827. J.S.C. Dumont D’Urville s.n.(holo: P!; iso: W!).
Etymology:
Named for Rear Admiral Jules Sébastien César Dumont d’Urville (1790–1842), French explorer and naval officer, who explored the southern and western Pacific, Australia, New Zealand and Antarctica.
Vernacular Name(s):
Wharekohu
 Description

Erect branching shrub ± 1 m. or more tall, bark blackish; branchlets slender, glab., reddish brown. Lvs glab., rigid, subcanaliculate, crowded towards tips of branchlets. Sheath c. 6–8 mm. long, abruptly narrowed to lamina; margins thin, ciliolate. Lamina linear, acute, 70–75 × 1–1·5 mm.; margins minutely serrulate. Infl. of 2–3-fld subspicate racemes near apex of branchlets, rarely fls solitary. Bracts deciduous, ciliolate; sheath suddenly narrowed to very acute apex. Sepals linear-oblong, ciliolate, acute, persistent, ± = corolla-tube. Corolla-tube 4–5 mm. long; lobes ovate, ± acuminate, patent; anthers sessile, inserted on throat. Capsule depressed-ovoid, seeds ∞.

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

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Bibliography
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.; Norton, D.A.; Heenan, P.B.; Courtney, S.P.; Molloy, B.P.J.; Ogle, C.C.; Rance, B.D. 2004: Threatened and uncommon plants of New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 42(1): 45–76.
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]
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. [Naturally Uncommon]
Richard, A. 1832: Essai d'une Flore de la Nouvelle Zélande. In: Dumont d'Urville, J. Voyage de découvertes de l'Astrolabe. Botanique. Tastu, Paris.
Venter, S. 2021: A taxonomic revision of the Australasian genera Dracophyllum and Richea (Richeeae: Styphelioideae: Ericaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 34: 1–205.