Class
Family
Classification
Subordinate Taxa
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Archeria Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. III. (Fl. Tasman.) Part I, 80-81 (1857)
Description
Fls 5-merous, in small terminal racemes; bracts of peduncle caducous. Calyx-lobes free almost to base; corolla-tube rather broad, lobes spreading or recurved; staminal filaments very short, inserted at throat. Hypog. disk cupular or of free scales. Ovary deeply lobed; style columnar. inserted in a depression at apex of ovary; stigma ± distinctly 5-lobed.Capsule loculicidally dehiscent, seeds ∞, on basilar or subbasilar placentae. Some 5 spp of Tasmania and 2 endemic to N.Z.
[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1.]
Biostatus
Indigenous (Non-endemic)
| Category | Number |
|---|---|
| Indigenous (Endemic) | 2 |
| Total | 2 |
Bibliography
Hooker, J.D. 1855–1857 ("1860"): 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. III. Flora Tasmaniae. Vol. I. Dicoteledones. Lovell Reeve, London.
Kubitzki, K. 2004: VI Flowering Plants. Dicotyledons: Celestrales, Oxalidales, Rosales, Cornales, Ericales. Kubitzki, K. (ed.) The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants. Spinger-Verlag, Berlin. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
Mabberley, D.J. 2008: Mabberley's plant book, a portable dictionary of plants, their classification and uses. Edition 3. Cambridge University Press.
