Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Lamiales Bromhead
Family
Scrophulariaceae Juss.
Genus
Myoporum Sol. ex G.Forst.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Myoporum rapense subsp. kermadecense (Sykes) Chinnock, Eremophila and allied genera 138 (2007)
Synonymy:
  • = Myoporum kermadecense Sykes, New Zealand J. Bot. 25: 595 (1987)
 Description

Low shrub to slender tree to c. 13 m high, with rough and furrowed bark, of rather open habit. Buds usually purplish black, sometimes green, viscid. Petiole to c. 1.5 cm long, usually less on adult shoots, scarcely distinct from the attenuate lamina base. Lamina 3.5–9–(11) × 0.7–3–(4) cm (to 16 × 5 cm on juvenile shoots), usually narrowly elliptic or narrowly lanceolate-elliptic, sometimes elliptic or elliptic-obovate, membranous to semi-succulent, punctate but glands scarcely visible except in some juvenile lvs, usually serrulate, very rarely entire (serrate in some juvenile lvs); apex ± acuminate. Fls (1)–2–5; pedicels 1–1.4 cm long at anthesis. Calyx lobed to near base; lobes 2.7–3.5 mm long, narrow-triangular to narrow-lanceolate, acuminate. Corolla 1.1–1.5 cm diam., white, purple-dotted and white-bearded inside, glandular-punctate; lobes almost = tube. Style hairy. Drupe 5–8–(10) mm long, oblong to ovoid, usually mauve, occasionally white.

[From: Webb et al. (1985) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4 as Myoporum kermadecense Sykes]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Bibliography
Chinnock, R.J. 2007: Eremophila and allied genera, a momograph of the plant family Myoporaceae. Rosenberg Publishing Pty Ltd.
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 Myoporum kermadecense Sykes] [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 Myoporum kermadecense Sykes]
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. [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. [Naturally Uncommon]
Sykes, W.R. 1987: Kermadec ngaio (Myoporum, Myoporaceae). New Zealand Journal of Botany 25: 595–601.