Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Ericales Bercht. & J.Presl
Family
Ericaceae
Genus
Androstoma Hook.f.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Androstoma empetrifolium Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. I. (Fl. Antarct.) Part I, 44, t. 30 (1844) – as empetrifolia
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Cyathodes empetrifolia (Hook.f.) Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 164 (1853)
  • = Styphelia androstoma F.Muell., Fragm. (Mueller) 6, 55-56 (1867) nom. illeg.
  • = Styphelia hookeri F.Muell., Fragm. (Mueller) 6, 44 (1868) nom. illeg.
  • = Styphelia taxifolia Sleumer, Blumea 12: 156 (1963) nom. superfl.
 Description

Prostrate shrub forming patches up to ± 6 dm. diam.; branches slender, wiry, up to ± 4 dm. long; branchlets very slender, up to c. 15 cm. long. ± white-tomentose at tips. Lvs subsessile, erecto-patent, coriac., close-set, glab. to pubescent or occ. hoary, glaucous below; linear, 3–5 × < 1 mm., obtuse to subacute, occ. apiculate; margins ± recurved, ciliolate. Fls axillary and/or terminal, solitary or in clusters of 2–4; peduncles very short, curved. Bracts ovate, covering peduncle. Fls. c. 2 mm. long; calyx-lobes ovate, ciliolate; corolla-lobes narrow-ovate, acute or subacute, glab. Fr. reddish, ovoid, c. 3 mm. long; locules 3–5.

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

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Bibliography
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Cheeseman, T.F. 1925: Manual of the New Zealand Flora. Edition 2. Government Printer, Wellington. [as Cyathodes empetrifolia (Hook.f.) Hook.f.]
Clarkson, B.D. 1996: The distribution of Androstoma (Cyathodes) empetrifolia in the North Island. New Zealand Botanical Society Newsletter 46: 17.
Connor, H.E.; Edgar, E. 1987: Name changes in the indigenous New Zealand flora, 1960–1986 and Nomina Nova IV, 1983–1986. New Zealand Journal of Botany 25: 115–170.
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. [Not Threatened]
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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. [as Cyathodes empetrifolia (Hook.f.) Hook.f.]
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Quinn, C. J.; Brown, E. A.; Heslewood, M. M.; Crayn, D. M. 2005: Generic concepts in Styphelieae (Ericaceae): the Cyathodes group. Australian Systematic Botany 18: 439–454.
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. 1996: Reinstatement of the genus Androstoma Hook.f. (Epacridaceae). New Zealand Journal of Botany 34(2): 179–185.