Class
Family
Genus
Classification
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Dracophyllum pubescens Cheeseman
Description
Sprawling to prostrate; branches stout, us. rather close-set; branchlets with dark reddish brown bark. Lvs crowded towards tips of branchlets. Sheath 5–7 × 4–5 mm., slightly shouldered or gradually narrowed to lamina (25)–35–50–(60) × (3)–4–8 mm. Lamina concavo-convex, erect to patent, coriac., glaucous, amply pubescent when young, becoming almost glab.; apex acute to acuminate, pungent. Infl. of 3–5-fld racemes or spikes, or the fls occ. solitary, terminal on lateral branchlets. Bracts lflike, ovate, acuminate, ciliolate. Sepals ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, ± = corolla-tube 5–6 mm. long. Corolla-lobes white, triangular, acute. Capsule obovoid.
[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1.]
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]
