Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Malvales Juss. ex Bercht. & J.Presl
Family
Thymelaeaceae
Genus
Kelleria Endl.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Kelleria dieffenbachii (Hook.) Endl. (1847)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Drapetes dieffenbachii Hook., London Journal of Botany 497, t.17 (1843)
  • = Drapetes macrantha Colenso, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 22: 487 (1889 [1890])
 Description

Plant forming dense to lax patches up to 25 cm. or more diam.; stems and branches prostrate and rooting, up to 3 mm. diam.; branchlets approximate, prostrate or ascending, glabrate, up to 5 cm. long. Lvs erect to appressed, sts incurved, 2.5–3·5 mm. long, obtuse, strongly concavo-convex, coriac., tapering from base 0·5–1 mm. wide; nerves prominent to obscure, margins ciliate, apex densely penicillate. Fls 3–8 per head; scales 4, sts 2-lobed or separated into 4 closely approximate pairs. Per. tube sparsely to densely pilose, 1·5–2.5 mm. long; lobes 1·5–2 mm. long, broad- to ovate-oblong, densely to sparsely pilose. Ovary ovoid, apex penicillate. Fr. ovoid, 1·5 mm. long.

[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1 as Drapetes dieffenbachii Hook.]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Bibliography
Colenso, W. 1890: A description of some newly-discovered Phænogamic plants, being a further contribution towards the making-known the botany of New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 22: 459–493.
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]
Heads, M.J. 1990: A revision of the genera Kelleria and Drapetes (Thymelaeaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 3: 595–652.
London Journal of Botany