Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Ericales Bercht. & J.Presl
Family
Ericaceae
Genus
Leptecophylla C.M.Weiller
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Leptecophylla robusta (Hook.f.) C.M.Weiller, Muelleria 12: 210 (2000)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Cyathodes robusta Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 177 (1864)
  • ≡ Styphelia robusta (Hook.f.) Sleumer, Blumea 12: 159 (1963)
  • = Cyathodes acerosa var. latifolia Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 163 (1853)
Vernacular Name(s):
Pouteretere
 Description

Similar to but much stouter, up to c. 5 m. tall. Lvs coriac., rigid, patent, 12–20 × 3–7 mm., 5–11-nerved, narrow-oblong to narrow-lanceolate, subsessile to shortly petioled; margins recurved; apex obtuse to subacute, callous tip blunt. Infl. of solitary axillary fls on curved peduncles. Bracts many, imbricate, broad, obtuse. Fls c. 3 mm. long; corolla-tube but little > calyx, lobes glab. on upper surface. Fr. red, globose, 7–12 mm. diam.

[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1 as Cyathodes robusta Hook.f.]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Bibliography
de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A.; Courtney, S.P.; Heenan, P.B.; Barkla, J.W.; Cameron, E.K.; Hitchmough, R.; Townsend, A.J. 2009: Threatened and uncommon plants of New Zealand (2008 revision). New Zealand Journal of Botany 47: 61–96. [Naturally uncommon]
de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A.; Heenan, P.B.; Courtney, S.P.; Molloy, B.P.J.; Ogle, C.C.; Rance, B.D. 2004: Threatened and uncommon plants of New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 42(1): 45–76.
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. [Naturally Uncommon]
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. [Naturally Uncommon]
Hooker, J.D. 1852–1853 ("1853"): The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H.M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror in the Years 1839–1843, under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross. II. Flora Novae-Zelandiae. Part I. Flowering plants. Lovell Reeve, London.
Hooker, J.D. 1864: Handbook of the New Zealand Flora: a systematic description of the native plants of New Zealand and the Chatham, Kermadec's, Lord Auckland's, Campbell's and Macquarie's Islands. Part I. Reeve, London.
Sleumer, H. 1963: Florae Malesianae Precursores. XXXVII. Materials Towards the Knowledge of the Epacridaceae Mainly in Asia, Malaysia and the Pacific. Blumea 12: 145–171.
Weiller, C.M. 2000: Leptecophylla, a new genus for species formerly Included in Cyathodes (Epacridaceae). Muelleria 12(2): 195–214.