Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Malvales Juss. ex Bercht. & J.Presl
Family
Thymelaeaceae
Genus
Kelleria Endl.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Kelleria lyallii (Hook.f.) Berggr., Minneskr. Kongl. Fysiogr. Sällsk. Lund 8: 20 (1877)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Drapetes lyallii Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, (1852)
  • ≡ Kelleria dieffenbachii β lyallii (Hook.f.) Meissner (1857)
Type: Lyall, 'South Island' [i.e. Stewart Is.] (K)
  • = Drapetes muscosa Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part II, 223 (1854) nom. illeg., non Drapetes muscosa Lam.
  • = Kelleria dieffenbachii var. lyallii DC. (1857)
 Description

Plant forming small low cushions up to 10 cm. diam. Main stem short, stout, erect; branches erect or ascending, approximate; branchlets glabrate. Lvs densely imbricate, erecto-patent, 2–3 × 1 mm., ovate-triangular to ovate-oblong, subacute to acute, rounded on back, sub-membr., nerves not prominent, margins ciliate, apex penicillate. Fls solitary to 2–3 per head; scales 8, distinct. Per. tube broadly funnel-form to subcampanulate; lobes glabrate, 2–2.5 × 1·5–2 mm., ovate-oblong. Ovary ovoid, pilose at apex; fr. ovoid, 2 × 1 mm.

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

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Bibliography
Berggren, S. 1877: Några nya eller ofullständigt kända Arter af Nya-Zeeländska fanerogamer. Minneskrift Utgifven af Kongl. Fysiografiska Sällskapet i Lund 8: 1–33.
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. [Naturally Uncommon]
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]
Heads, M.J. 1990: A revision of the genera Kelleria and Drapetes (Thymelaeaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 3: 595–652.
Hooker, J.D. 1852–1853 ("1853"): 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. II. Flora Novae-Zelandiae. Part I. Flowering plants. Lovell Reeve, London.
Hooker, J.D. 1854–1855: 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. II. Flora Novae-Zelandiae. Part II. Flowerless plants. Lovell Reeve, London.