Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Lamiales Bromhead
Family
Plantaginaceae Juss.
 Subordinate Taxa
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Ourisia Comm. ex Juss. (1789)
Vernacular Name(s):
New Zealand foxglove
 Description

Fls in terminal verticillate bracteate panicles, sts much reduced. Calyx 5-lobed, some or all of clefts extending almost to base. Corolla weakly zygomorphic, with short slightly oblique tube ± hairy within, and 5 spreading lobes, the posterior two shortest and overlapping the lateral ones in bud. Stamens 4, didynamous, inserted near base of corolla-tube, staminode minute, anther-cells apically confluent. Style long, stigma capitate. Capsule ovoid-conical, loculicidal; seeds ∞, reticulate. Low-growing perennial herbs with opp. us. strongly veined lvs.

[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1.]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Non-endemic)
Number of species in New Zealand within Ourisia Comm. ex Juss.
CategoryNumber
Indigenous (Endemic)13
Total13
 Bibliography
Mabberley, D.J. 2008: Mabberley's plant book, a portable dictionary of plants, their classification and uses. Edition 3. Cambridge University Press.