Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Caryophyllales Juss. ex Bercht. & J.Presl
Family
Caryophyllaceae
Genus
Stellaria L.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Stellaria multiflora Hook., Companion Bot. Mag. 1: 275 (1836) var. multiflora
Synonymy:
  • = Stellaria elatinoides Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 25 (1852)
 Description

Glabrous annual herb. Stems decumbent, terete, 1.5–4 cm long. Lvs dark green or glaucous, cuneate to short petiole, narrow-oblong or oblanceolate, subacute, 3–5 mm long. Fls solitary; peduncles slender, 3–10 mm long, erect. Bracts leaflike. Sepals lanceolate or narrowly ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 2–3 mm long, weakly 1-veined; margins narrowly scarious. Petals 0. Stamens 5–10. Capsule ovoid or globose, slightly < or = sepals. Seeds red-brown, 0.6–0.7 mm long; tubercles large, rounded.

[From: Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4. as Stellaria elatinoides Hook.f.]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Non-endemic)
 Phenology

Fruiting: Oct.–Nov.

 Bibliography
de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A.; Courtney, S.P.; Heenan, P.B.; Barkla, J.W.; Cameron, E.K.; Hitchmough, R.; Townsend, A.J. 2009: Threatened and uncommon plants of New Zealand (2008 revision). New Zealand Journal of Botany 47: 61–96. [as Stellaria elatinoides Hook.f.] [Extinct]
de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A.; Heenan, P.B.; Courtney, S.P.; Molloy, B.P.J.; Ogle, C.C.; Rance, B.D. 2004: Threatened and uncommon plants of New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 42(1): 45–76. [as Stellaria elatinoides Hook.f.]
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. [as Stellaria elatinoides Hook.f.] [Extinct]
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. [as Stellaria elatinoides Hook.f.] [Extinct]
Heenan, P.B. 2019: Taxonomic notes on the New Zealand flora: the status of the extinct herb Stellaria elatinoides (Caryophyllaceae) and recognition of Stellaria multiflora subsp. multiflora from New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 57(4): 309–315.
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, W.J. 1836: Contributions towards a flora of van Diemen’s Land: from collections sent by R.W. Lawrence, Ronald Gunn, and Thomas Scott, Esqrs. Companion to the Botanical Magazine 1: 272–277.