Class
Family
Classification
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Haloragis erecta (Banks ex Murray) Oken (1841) subsp. erecta
Synonymy:
- = Haloragis colensoi Skottsb. (1922)
Description
Smooth, quite glab. subshrub, resembling Lvs ovate to lanceolate, acute, cuneate at base, blade 10–15 mm. long or more, 6–8 mm. wide, clearly serrate with 5–7 teeth on each side, borne on a petiole 3–4 mm. long. Fls subsessile. Achenes ovoid-conical, 2·9–3·3 mm. long (including the sepals) and 1·7–2 mm. in diam., tetragonous, smooth, but in the lower half transversely tuberculate-rugose, without wings or furnished with 4 narrow triangular wings, small and even insignificant, placed below the middle. Other characters unknown. New Zealand, North Island (Colenso in herb. Kew); in Puketoi Hills [Mt. Oporae, near Weber] commun. H. H. Allan.
[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1 as Haloragis colensoi Skottsb.]
Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
Bibliography
Cunningham, A. 1839: Florae insularum Novae Zelandiae precursor; or a specimen of the botany of the islands of New Zealand. Annals of Natural History 3: 29–34.
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]
Orchard, A.E. 1975: Taxonomic revisions in the family Haloragaceae. I. The genera Haloragis, Haloragodendron, Glischrocaryon, Meziella and Gonocarpus. Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum 10: 1–299.
