Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Asterales Link
Family
Campanulaceae
Genus
Wahlenbergia Schrad. ex Roth
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Wahlenbergia rupestris G.Simpson, Trans. Roy. Soc. New Zealand 79: 431 (1952)
Synonymy:
  • = Wahlenbergia colensoi N.E.Br., The Gardeners' Chronicle 317 (1913) pro parte
 Description

Habit of radicate group. Stems slender, erect, 10-50 cm tall, branching from the base, terete. Leaves alternate, often dark green, usually linear-oblanceolate to linear, 15—20 mm long, subentire, with scattered hairs on margins and lamina. Callus teeth 4-5 on each margin. Bracts linear, 4—20 × 2 mm. Flowers pure white, (9—) 15— 25 mm diam., 6—13 mm long, on slender pedicels 5—10 cm long. Corolla rotate, almost tubeless, with long lobes and shallow, saucer-shaped tube 2 × 5 mm. Corolla lobes 8 × 5 mm to 11 × 6 mm, elliptic to oblanceolate, acute, separated at base. Style strongly constricted below stigma lobes, white. Calyx glabrous, lobes 2 × 0.7 mm to 3 × 1 mm, narrowtriangular, erect. Capsule glabrous, 7 × 3 to 10 × 4 mm, ellipsoid to obconic. Bud at anther dehiscence slender, pointed. Self-fertile. Seeds 0.5 mm long. FL Nov—Apr, FT Dec—Apr.

[Reproduced from Petterson (1997, New Zealand J. Bot. 35: 9–54) with permission from The Royal Society of New Zealand.]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 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]
Petterson, J.A. 1997: Revision of the genus Wahlenbergia (Campanulaceae) in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 35(1): 9–54.
Simpson, G. 1952: Notes on some New Zealand plants and descriptions of new species (No. 5). Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand 79: 419–435.
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