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Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Drosera arcturi Hook., Journal of Botany 1: 247 (1834)
Synonymy:
- = Drosera polyneura Colenso, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 22: 460 (1889 [1890])
- = Drosera ruahinensis Colenso, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 28: 593 (1896)
- = Drosera atra Colenso, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 31: 269 (1899)
- = Drosera ligulata Colenso, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 31: 269 (1899)
Description
Stock short, invested with remains of lf-bases. Lvs exstipulate, linear-ligulate, bases sheathing; petiole glab., up to 5 cm.× 8 mm.; lamina up to 7 cm. × 8·5 mm., clad in stalked glandular hairs. Peduncles solitary or few, glab., up to 15 cm. long, with one or rarely up to 3 fls. Sepals connate at the base, narrow elliptic-oblong, up to 8 × 2 mm.; petals white, broad-ovate to obovate, up to 8 mm. long. Style branches 3–4, rarely again divided, dilated at apices. Capsule c. 1 cm. long.
[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1.]
Biostatus
Indigenous (Non-endemic)
Phenology
Fruiting: Nov.–Mar.
Bibliography
Colenso, W. 1890: A description of some newly-discovered Phænogamic plants, being a further contribution towards the making-known the botany of New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 22: 459–493.
Colenso, W. 1896: Phænogams: A description of a few more newly-discovered indigenous plants; being a further contribution towards the making known the botany of New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 28: 591–613.
Colenso, W. 1899: Phænogams: A description of a few more newly discovered indigenous plants; being a further contribution towards the making known the botany of New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 31: 266–281.
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]
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. [Not Threatened]
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