Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Ericales Bercht. & J.Presl
Family
Ericaceae
Genus
Dracophyllum Labill.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Dracophyllum subulatum Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. I. (Fl. Antarct.) Part I, 50 (1844)
Synonymy:
Type: New Zealand. Near the Rangitaiki River [near nowadays town of Galatea], Jan. 1842. J.C. Bidwill s.n. (lecto: K!), designated by Oliver (1952).
  • = Dracophyllum angustifolium Colenso, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 28: 603 (1896)
Type: New Zealand. Ruahine Mountain range, 1895. H. Hill s.n. (n.v.).
Vernacular Name(s):
Monoao
 Description

Erect, up to c. 2m. tall; branches rather slender, subfastigiate, bark blackish grey; branchlets lfy at tips only, bark reddish brown. Lvs imbricate, rigid, coriac., erect or ascending. Sheath (2)–3–4 × (1)–2–3 mm., passing by rounded to subtruncate ciliolate shoulder to linear-subulate lamina (12)–20–30 × ± 1 mm.; margins minutely serrulate, apex triquetrous, pungent. Infl. of 2–6-fld racemes 6–9 mm. long, terminal on lateral branchlets, often clustered (fls sts solitary). Bracts light-margined, persistent, broad-ovate, ciliolate, tapering to subulate tip, lower up to c. 1 cm. long. Sepals broad-ovate, acute to acuminate, slighty > corolla-tube. Corolla-tube narrow-campanulate, c, 2–3 mm. long; lobes white, broad, c. 3 mm. long, ovate-oblong, obtuse, recurved; anthers included or nearly so.

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

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
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