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Class
Family
Genus
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Epilobium komarovianum H.Lév., Feddes Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis 5: 98 (1908)
Synonymy:
- = Epilobium nummulariifolium var. brevipes Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 58 (1852)
- ≡ Epilobium inornatum var. brevipes (Hook.f.) Melville, Kew Bull. 14: 299 (1960)
- = Epilobium nummulariifolium var. nerterioides (A.Cunn.) Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 58 (1852)
- ≡ Epilobium nummulariifolium subsp. nerterioides (A.Cunn.) Kirk, Stud. Fl. New Zealand 174 (1899) pro parte
- = Epilobium nummulariifolium var. minimum Kirk, Stud. Fl. New Zealand 174 (1899)
- = Epilobium nerteroides var. minimum (Kirk) Cockayne, Rep. Bot. Surv. Stewart Island 43 (1909)
- = Epilobium inornatum Melville, Kew Bull. 14: 298 (1960)
Vernacular Name(s):
creeping willowherb
Description
Creeping herb forming mats up to 0.5 m diam. Stems with sparse, round-tipped, appressed, antrorse, eglandular hairs (occasionally also with non-appressed, antrorse hairs) in decurrent lines; hairs also on ovaries, capsules, pedicels, sepals and sometimes lvs. Lamina of lf usually suborbicular, rugose, sometimes oblong or ovate, sometimes with several forms on the same plant, 0.2–1.2 × 0.15–0.9 cm. Floral tube 0.4–1 mm deep, glabrate. Petals white, 2–4–(5) × 0.9–2.5–(3) mm. Capsule glabrate, 0.4–3 cm long; fruiting pedicel 0.3–9.3–(13.5) cm long.
[From: Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4.]
Biostatus
Indigenous (Non-endemic)
Phenology
Flowering: Dec.–Feb.
Bibliography
Cockayne, L. 1909: Report on a Botanical Survey of Stewart Island. Government Printer, Wellington, N.Z.
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]
Feddes Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis
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.
Kirk,T. 1899: The Students' Flora of New Zealand and the Outlying Islands. Government Printer, Wellington, N.Z.
Melville, R. 1960: Epilobium pedunculare A. Cunn. and its Allies. Kew Bulletin 14: 296–300.
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.
