Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Ericales Bercht. & J.Presl
Family
Ericaceae
Genus
Acrothamnus Quinn
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Acrothamnus colensoi (Hook.f.) Quinn, Austral. Syst. Bot. 18: 452 (2005)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Leucopogon colensoi Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 165 (1864)
  • ≡ Cyathodes colensoi (Hook.f.) Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 177 (1864)
 Description

Rather stout prostrate to decumbent shrub forming dense to rather lax patches up to c. 2 m. diam., branchlets erect to ascending. Lvs sessile or subsessile, glab., erect or ascending, becoming patent, glaucous below, with 5–3 distinct nerves below, 5–9 × 1–2–(3) mm., narrow-oblong, concavo-convex; margins thickened, ± recurved, ciliolate; apex obtuse, us. apiculate to mucronulate. Infl. of (2)–3–5-fld short, stout, terminal racemes. Bracts 2–3, broad-ovate, c. 2.5 mm. long, obtuse, ciliolate. Fls up to c. 7 mm. long; calyx-lobes obtuse, ciliolate, c. 4 mm. long. elliptic-oblong; corolla-tube 4–5 mm. long hairy on upper part; corolla-lobes ± 3 mm. long, densely hairy on upper surface. Fr. white to pink to red to dark crimson, globose, 4–5 mm. diam.; locules 5.

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

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Bibliography
Connor, H.E.; Edgar, E. 1987: Name changes in the indigenous New Zealand flora, 1960–1986 and Nomina Nova IV, 1983–1986. New Zealand Journal of Botany 25: 115–170.
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. 1864: Handbook of the New Zealand Flora: a systematic description of the native plants of New Zealand and the Chatham, Kermadec's, Lord Auckland's, Campbell's and Macquarie's Islands. Part I. Reeve, London.
Quinn, C. J.; Brown, E. A.; Heslewood, M. M.; Crayn, D. M. 2005: Generic concepts in Styphelieae (Ericaceae): the Cyathodes group. Australian Systematic Botany 18: 439–454.