Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Lamiales Bromhead
Family
Plantaginaceae Juss.
Genus
Ourisia Comm. ex Juss.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Ourisia caespitosa Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 198 (1853)
Synonymy:
  • = Ourisia caespitosa var. gracilis Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 738 (1867)
Vernacular Name(s):
Creeping mountain fox glove
 Description

Stem prostrate and rooting at nodes, much and often closely branched, c. 2 mm. diam., glab. or with some retrorse hairs. Lvs us. crowded, often distichously arranged; lamina coriac. to almost fleshy, broad- to narrow-spathulate to almost oblong, with 0–1–2–(3) notches on each side, glab., margins slightly thickened or revolute; petiole < lamina, the wide membr. wing fringed with long hairs. Peduncle erect, up to 10 cm. tall, glab. Bracts in 1–3–(4) pairs, narrow, subentire or notched. Pedicels > fls glab. Calyx split anteriorally almost to base, the other clefts us. shorter; lobes broad, obtuse to retuse, entire, glab. Corolla glab. outside.

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

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Bibliography
Arroyo, M.T.K. 1984: New species and combinations in Ourisia (Scrophulariaceae) in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 22: 447–463.
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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]
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Hooker, J.D. 1867: 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 Macquarrie's Islands. Part II. Reeve, London.