Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Brassicales Bromhead
Family
Cruciferae
Genus
Pachycladon Hook.f.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Pachycladon novae-zelandiae (Hook.f.) Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 724 (1867)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Braya novae-zelandiae Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 13 (1864)
  • = Pachycladon glabra Buchanan, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 14: 344, Pl. 24, fig. 2 (1881 [1882])
  • ≡ Pachycladon novae-zelandiae var. glabra (Buchanan) Kirk, Stud. Fl. New Zealand 33 (1899)
 Description

Stock stout from a long fleshy taproot, often branched above, crowned by dense rosette of imbricating basal lvs. Radical lvs up to 3 cm. long, clad in stellate pubescence, obovate-oblong, narrowed into short flat petiole; lamina pinnatifid to subentire, lobes rounded to subacute. Cauline lvs smaller. Peduncles several, from below the lvs, up to c. 4 cm. long, with 2 to 5 fls. Sepals ± 2 mm. long; petals white, 3–4 mm. long, obovate-spathulate. Siliques 7–10 mm. long, c. 2 mm. wide, ± compressed. Seeds obovoid, c. 3–8 per valve, ± 1 mm. long, oblong in outline.

[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1.]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Phenology

Flowering: Nov.–Dec.; Fruiting: Jan.–Mar.

 Bibliography
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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]
Heenan, P.B.; Mitchell, A.D.; Koch, M. 2002: Molecular systematics of the New Zealand Pachycladon (Brassicaceae) complex: generic circumscription and relationships to Arabidopsis sens. lat. and Arabis sens. lat. New Zealand Journal of Botany 40(4): 543–562.
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