Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Ericales Bercht. & J.Presl
Family
Ericaceae
Genus
Dracophyllum Labill.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Dracophyllum cockayneanum Du Rietz, Svensk Bot. Tidskr. 24: 375 (1930)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Dracophyllum longifolium var. cockayneanum (Du Rietz) W.R.B.Oliv., Trans. Roy. Soc. New Zealand 80: 11 (1952)
Type: New Zealand. Campbell Island, Perseverance Harbour, 1 Apr. 1927. W.R.B. Oliver s.n. (holo: WELT 280!).
Etymology:
Named after Dr Leonard Cockayne (1855–1934), New Zealand botanist and plant geographer.
 Description

Lvs stiff, sheaths 10–18 × 5–10 mm.; lamina (6)–9–10–(14) cm. long. Width of Auckland Id specimens 2–4 mm., of Campbell Id 2–2.5 mm. Racemes c. 4–5 cm. long, erect to ascending, sts becoming spreading.

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

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 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 Dracophyllum longifolium var. cockayneanum (Du Rietz) W.R.B.Oliv.] [Naturally uncommon]
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. [Naturally Uncommon]
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. [Naturally Uncommon]
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Oliver, W.R.B. 1952: A revision of the genus Dracophyllum; Supplement. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand 80: 1–17.
Venter, S. 2021: A taxonomic revision of the Australasian genera Dracophyllum and Richea (Richeeae: Styphelioideae: Ericaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 34: 1–205.