Class
Family
Classification
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Nertera cunninghamii Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 112 (1852)
Synonymy:
- = Nertera papillosa Colenso, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 28: 595 (1895 [1896])
Description
Glab. with very slender branched stems, forming patches up to c. 2 dm. diam.; branchlets almost filiform. Lvs on filiform petioles 2–3 mm. long; stipules narrow-triangular, acute. Lamina 5–6–(8) × (1)–2–(3) mm., narrow-ovate, acute, gradually narrowed to apex and to rounded or occ. subtruncate base; margins thickened. Fls minute, axillary and terminal, sessile or subsessile. Calyx ± 2 mm. long, truncate or minutely 4-toothed. Corolla c. 1·5–2 mm. long, subcampanulate; lobes 4, ± = tube. Anthers and styles shortly exserted. Drupe globose, 3–4 mm. diam., red.
[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1.]
Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
Phenology
Flowering: Nov.–Feb.; Fruiting: Dec.–May.
Bibliography
Cheeseman, T.F. 1925: Manual of the New Zealand Flora. Edition 2. Government Printer, Wellington.
Colenso, W. 1896: Phænogams: A description of a few more 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 28: 591–613.
Gardner, R.O. 1999: Nertera scapanioides (Rubiaceae) redescribed. New Zealand Natural Sciences 24: 9–19.
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.
