Class
Family
Genus
Classification
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Logania depressa Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, (1853)
Synonymy:
Holotype sheet of L. depressa is at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K000438898: Conn 1995)
Description
The essential parts of Hooker's description are: "Woody, rigid, branching, prostrate shrub, with numerous small white flowers . . .Stems 3–6 inches long, much branched; branches short, rigid, pubescent. Leaves 1/4 inch long, crowded, opposite, the bases of each pair united by two small blunt stipules, very coriaceous, elliptical, ovate or spathulate, blunt, nerveless, quite glabrous, entire and shining. Flowers 1 line long, two to three together, on axillary, stout, pubescent pedicels, which are shorter than the leaves, and furnished with opposite, subulate connate bracts. Calyx of five oblong, blunt, ciliated sepals. Corolla with a short tube and five veined, rounded, spreading, imbricated lobes, villous at the mouth. Stamens 5; filaments slender; anthers deeply two-lobed from the base upwards. Ovary very small, low, depressed; style erect, with a short club-shaped stigma . . . Northern Island. Ruahine Mountains, Colenso . . . I have seen no fruit of this plant, nor can I determine the nature of the ovariusm . . . It may prove to be a species of ."
[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1.]
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. [Extinct]
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. [Extinct]
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. [Extinct]
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.
