Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Ericales Bercht. & J.Presl
Family
Ericaceae
Genus
Dracophyllum Labill.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Dracophyllum frondosum (G.Simpson) S.Venter, Austral. Syst. Bot. 34: 93 (2021)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Dracophyllum uniflorum var. frondosum G.Simpson, Trans. Roy. Soc. New Zealand 79: 424 (1952)
Type: New Zealand. Otago, Deep Stream at bridge on Dunedin, Middlemarch Road, 5 Feb. 1949, G. Simpson s.n. (holo: CHR 87407 A&B!; iso: WELT 33375; WELT 33374!).
Etymology:
Covered in leaves – refers to the stems that are covered in leaves from the base up to the apex.
 Description

Much-branched prostrate to sprawling shrub with stout main branches up to 1 m. or more long; ultimate branchlets ∞, up to c. 5 cm. long, densely clad in imbricate, rigid, coriac. lvs. Sheath 4–6 × 2–3 mm., ciliolate, subtruncate to rather abruptly narrowed into rigid coriac. lamina ± 20–30–(50) × 1–1·5–(2) mm.; surface ± pubescent, margins ciliolate, apex pungent. Fls solitary, terminal on branchlets; sepals unequal, longest = corolla-tube, lanceolate, acute, ciliolate; corolla-tube 7–10 × 3–4 mm., lobes white, short, ovate-triangular. Capsule depressed, broad-obovoid, ± 4 × 3 mm. Style persistent, c. 3 mm. long.

[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1. as Dracophyllum uniflorum var. frondosum G.Simpson]

 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 uniflorum var. frondosum G.Simpson] [Naturally uncommon]
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 Dracophyllum uniflorum var. frondosum G.Simpson]
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 Dracophyllum uniflorum var. frondosum G.Simpson] [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. [as Dracophyllum uniflorum var. frondosum G.Simpson] [Naturally Uncommon]
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.
Venter, S. 2021: A taxonomic revision of the Australasian genera Dracophyllum and Richea (Richeeae: Styphelioideae: Ericaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 34: 1–205.