Class
Family
Genus
Classification
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Kelleria multiflora (Cheeseman) Heads, Austral. Syst. Bot. 3: 630 (1990)
Synonymy:
- ≡ Drapetes villosa var. multiflora Cheeseman, Man. New Zealand Fl. 616 (1906)
- ≡ Drapetes multiflorus (Cheeseman) Allan, Fl. New Zealand 1, 288 (1961)
- = Drapetes villosa var. multicaulis Cockayne (1912)
Description
Plant forming low lax mats up to 30 cm. or more diam.; stems and branches prostrate, robust, up to 5 mm. or more diam.; branchlets densely clad in ascending white to greyish hairs, prostrate to ascending, up to 6 cm. long. Lvs erect, densely imbricate, 4–7 × 0·5–1 mm., linear-lanceolate to narrow oblong-lanceolate, often slightly curved, obtuse, coriac., nerves us. conspicuous, margins ciliate, apex pencillate. Fls 5–15 per head; scales 8, distinct. Per. tube villous, 2–3 mm. long; lobes 1·5–2 mm. long, ovate-oblong, sts villous within. Ovary ovoid, villous at apex. Fr. ovoid, 1·5–2 × 1 mm.
[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1 as Drapetes multiflorus (Cheeseman) Allan]
Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
Bibliography
Cheeseman, T.F. 1906: Manual of the New Zealand Flora. Government Printer, Wellington.
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.
