Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Malvales Juss. ex Bercht. & J.Presl
Family
Thymelaeaceae
Genus
Kelleria Endl.
 Subordinate Taxa
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Kelleria villosa Berggr. (1877)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Drapetes villosa (Berggr.) Cheeseman, Man. New Zealand Fl. 616 (1906) – as villosus
 Description

Plant forming low mats or patches up to 30 cm. or more diam. Main stems and branches prostrate and rooting, up to 4 mm. or more diam.; branchlets up to 4 cm. long, densely clad in subappressed greyish to white hairs. Lvs densely imbricate, erect or ascending, often incurved, 2.5–4 × 0·5–1 mm., narrow-subulate, slightly concavo-convex, obtuse to subacute, subcoriac., nerves distinct but hardly prominent, margins ciliate, apex strongly penicillate. Fls 3–4 per head; scales 8, distinct. Per. tube ± appressed-pilose within, funnelform, 3 mm. long; lobes 2–2.5 mm. long, oblong to ovate-oblong. Ovary ovoid, pilose at least at apex. Fr. ovoid, 1·5 mm. long.

[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1 as Drapetes villosa (Bergg.) Cheeseman]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
Number of subspecific taxa in New Zealand within Kelleria villosa Berggr.
CategoryNumber
Indigenous (Endemic)2
Total2
 Bibliography
Cheeseman, T.F. 1906: Manual of the New Zealand Flora. Government Printer, Wellington.
Heads, M.J. 1990: A revision of the genera Kelleria and Drapetes (Thymelaeaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 3: 595–652.