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Classification
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Stackhousia minima Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 47 (1852)
Description
Small slender glab. herb with branching white subsucculent rhizomes and close-set erect branches up to 5 cm. long; often forming dense mats up to ± 3 m. diam. Lvs ± fleshy, subsessile, (4)–10–15–(20) × (0.5)–2–(4) mm., linear to linear-obovate to spathulate, acute to obtuse. Fls solitary, terminal, very shortly stalked, fragrant; calyx ± 4 mm. long teeth acute; petals ± 7 mm. long, yellowish, connate at middle or sts free teeth acute to acuminate, recurved. Stamens 5, three > others; anthers glab. Ovary 3-lobed, styles 3-fid. Cocci obovoid, smooth, (1)–2–(3) maturing, ± 3 mm. long when mature, pale to dark brown yellow.
[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1.]
Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
Phenology
Flowering: Jan.–Feb.; Fruiting: Dec.–Mar.
Bibliography
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]
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.
