Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Ericales Bercht. & J.Presl
Family
Ericaceae
Genus
Leptecophylla C.M.Weiller
 Subordinate Taxa
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Leptecophylla juniperina (J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.) C.M.Weiller, Muelleria 12: 200-206 (2000)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Epacris juniperina J.R.Forst. & G.Forst., Char. Gen. Pl., ed. 2. 20, t. 10 (1776)
  • ≡ Styphelia juniperina (J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.) Willd., Sp. Pl., ed. 4 [Willdenow] 1(2), 836 (1798)
  • ≡ Cyathodes juniperina (J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.) Druce, Bot. Soc. Exch. Club Brit. Isles 4 Suppl.: 618 (1917)
  • = Ardisia acerosa Gaertn., Fruct. Sem. Pl. 2, 78, t. 94 (1791)
  • ≡ Cyathodes acerosa (Gaertn.) Roem. & Schult., Syst. Veg. (ed. 16) [Roemer & Schultes] 473 (1819)
  • ≡ Lissanthe acerosa (Gaertn.) Spreng., Syst. Veg., ed. 16 [Sprengel] 1, 660 (1824)
  • = Leucopogon forsteri A.Rich., Essai Fl. Nouv.-Zél., 216 (1832) nom. illeg.
  • = Cyathodes acerosa var. parvifolia Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 163 (1853)
  • = Styphelia acerosa F.Muell., Fragm. (Mueller) 8, 54 (1873)
  • = Cyathodes articulata Colenso, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 28: 600 (1895 [1896])
 Description

Erect or spreading shrub up to c. 5 m. tall; bark black, branchlets divergent. Lvs coriac., patent or reflexed, sessile to very shortly petioled, glaucous below, 6–15–(20) × 0·5–1 mm.; margins ± recurved, ciliolate; apex with fine pungent tip c. 1 mm. long; veins 3–7, branched above. Infl. of solitary axillary fls on recurved peduncles ± 5 mm. long. Bracts imbricate, ovate-oblong, investing peduncle, up to c. 1 mm. long. Fls 3–4 mm. long; calyx-lobes ovate-oblong, c. 3 mm. long, ciliolate. Corollatube hardly > calyx, whitish green; lobes spreading, whitish green, acute or subacute, us. glab. on upper surface. Fr. white to pink to red to crimson to dark purple; 4–7–(9) mm. diam., globose; locules 5.

[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1 as Cyathodes juniperina (J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.) Druce]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Non-endemic)
Number of subspecific taxa in New Zealand within Leptecophylla juniperina (J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.) C.M.Weiller
CategoryNumber
Indigenous (Non-endemic)1
Total1
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