Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Gentianales Juss. ex Bercht. & J.Presl
Family
Loganiaceae
Genus
Schizacme Dunlop
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Schizacme helmsii (Kirk) K.L.Gibbons, Telopea 17: 371-372 (2014)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Mitrasacme montana var. helmsii Kirk, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 22: 445, t.32 (1890)
 Description

Glab. perennial herb forming compact to rather lax patches up to ± 6 cm. diam., and 6 cm. tall. Stems slender, ascending; branches somewhat spreading. Lvs very close-set to rather distant, on slender flattened petioles 1–2 mm. long. Lamina obovate to ovate-oblong, ± fleshy, 3–5 mm. long; margins somewhat thickened. Fls terminal, up to 5 mm. long, solitary, hidden by lvs or nearly so. Calyx deeply lobed, lobes linear to lanceolate, obtuse; corolla longer, tube broad, lobes triangular, acute. Anthers subsessile, between lobes; styles free, ± connivent. Capsule concave at summit by growth of wings, 2-lobed, compressed; outer angles produced into filiform curved processes.

[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1. as Mitrasacme montana var. helmsii Kirk]

 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. [as Mitrasacme montana var. helmsii Kirk] [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. [as Mitrasacme montana var. helmsii Kirk]
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. [Nationally Endangered]
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. [as Mitrasacme montana var. helmsii Kirk] [Nationally Endangered]
Gibbons, K.L.; Conn, B.J.; Henwood, M.J. 2014: The Australasian genus Schizacme (Loganiaceae): new combinations and new species in the New Zealand flora. Telopea 17: 363–381.
Kirk,T. 1890: On the occurence of a variety of Mitrasacme montana Hook.f. in New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 22: 445–446.