Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Myrtales Juss. ex Bercht. & J.Presl
Family
Onagraceae
Genus
Epilobium L.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Epilobium alsinoides subsp. tenuipes (Hook.f.) P.H.Raven & Engelhorn, New Zealand J. Bot. 9: 349 (1971)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Epilobium confertifolium var. tenuipes Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 78 (1864)
  • = Epilobium tenuipes Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 59 (1852)
  • = Epilobium nanum Colenso, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 26: 315 (1893 [1894])
  • = Epilobium elegans Petrie, Trans. New Zealand Inst. 29: 325 (1896)
 Description

Stems simple or very sparingly branched, slender, 5–15 cm. long, rooting at lowest nodes then erect or ascending; bifariously pubescent. Lvs opp. crowded and overlapping in lower part, alt. in floral region, sessile or nearly so. Lamina 10–12–(20) × 2–4 mm.; linear to narrow-elliptic to narrow-lanceolate, obtuse to subacute, thin, light green, glab.; margins very obscurely denticulate to entire. Fls solitary or few, up to ± 8 mm. diam.; calyx-lobes linear to very narrow-ovate; petals white, deeply lobed, ± twice length of calyx. Capsules glab., reddish to pale brown, narrowed at apex, 20–30 mm. long; peduncles elongating to 5 cm. or more at maturity. Seeds smooth.

[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1 as Epilobium elegans Petrie]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Bibliography
Colenso, W. 1894: Phænogams: A description of some newly-discovered Indigenous plants; being a further contribution towards the making known the botany of New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 26: 313–320.
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. [as Epilobium elegans Petrie; Epilobium tenuipes Hook.f.] [Data Deficient; 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. [as Epilobium elegans Petrie; Epilobium tenuipes Hook.f.] [Data Deficient; Not Threatened]
Hooker, J.D. 1852–1853 ("1853"): The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H.M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror in the Years 1839–1843, under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross. II. Flora Novae-Zelandiae. Part I. Flowering plants. Lovell Reeve, London.
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.
Petrie, D. 1896: Descriptions of New Native Plants. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute 29: 425–426.
Raven, P.H.; Engelhorn, T. 1971: New Taxa and New Combinations in Australasian Epilobium (Onagraceae). New Zealand Journal of Botany 9: 345–350.
Raven, P.H.; Raven, T. E. 1976: The Genus Epilobium (Onagraceae) in Australasia: a Systematic and Evolutionary Study. New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Bulletin 216: 1–321.