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Order
Family
Genus
Classification
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Euphrasia zelandica Wettst., Monogr. Euphrasia 264 (1896)
Description
Small, ± succulent, annual herb 2–10 cm tall, simple or branched from base, sometimes minute and flowering when < 1 cm tall; branches ascending, bifariously white-hairy, occasionally with short glandular hairs towards tips. Lvs sessile, ± 4–9 × 2–6 mm, ovate to suborbicular or flabellate, with 2–5 pairs of narrow acute teeth; upper surface with short, flattened, simple hairs, sometimes with short glandular hairs, occasionally nearly glabrous; lower surface glabrous or sparsely hairy. Fls subsessile or on pedicels to 4 mm long. Calyx (4)–5–(6) mm long, with hairs as on lvs, divided ⅓- c. 1/2 way. Corolla white, with throat yellow or yellow-spotted, 6–10–(12) mm long. Anthers yellow to golden brown; margins glabrous or nearly so; awns slender, ± equal. Capsule < or ± = calyx, 4–8 × 3–5 mm.
[From: Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4.]
Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
Phenology
Flowering: Oct.–Apr.
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]
Webb, C.J.; Edgar, E. 1999: Spelling New Zealand in the specific and infraspecific epithets of vascular plants. New Zealand Journal of Botany 37(1): 71–77.
Wettstein, R. 1896: Monographie der Gattung Euphrasia. Engelmann, Leipzig.
