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Family
Genus
Classification
Subordinate Taxa
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Ourisia macrophylla Hook., Icon. Pl. 6, t. 545-546 (1843)
Synonymy:
- = Ourisia colensoi Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 218 (1864)
- = Ourisia robusta Colenso, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 17: 246 (1884 [1885])
- ≡ Ourisia macrophylla var. robusta (Colenso) G.Simpson & J.S.Thomson, Trans. & Proc. Roy. Soc. New Zealand 73: 166 (1943)
- ≡ Ourisia macrophylla subsp. robusta (Colenso) Arroyo, New Zealand J. Bot. 22: 461 (1984)
- = Ourisia macrophylla var. drucei L.B.Moore in Allan, Fl. New Zealand 1, 973 (863) (1961)
- ≡ Ourisia lactea subsp. drucei (L.B.Moore) Arroyo, New Zealand J. Bot. 22: 459 (1984)
- = Ourisia macrophylla var. meadii L.B.Moore in Allan, Fl. New Zealand 1, 974 (863) (1961)
Vernacular Name(s):
Hue-o-Raukatauri; Mountain foxglove
Description
Stem prostrate and rooting, 1–2 cm. diam., terminating in tuft of ± erect lvs. Lamina subcoriac., 4–10–(15) cm. long, very broadly to very narrowly ovate, regularly and shallowly dentate-crenate, upper surface glab. to hairy, undersurface with hairs, if any, confined to veins; petiole channelled, narrow, > lamina. Peduncle erect, much > lvs, up to 60 cm. tall in fr., us. with a whorl of 2–4 ± sessile cauline lvs below floral bracts. Bracts in 1–8 whorls, us. 4-∞ per whorl, becoming smaller and more nearly entire upwards. Pedicels as many as bracts in each whorl and longer, 3–5 cm. long, clad in short crowded glandular hairs. Calyx-clefts all reaching almost to base; lobes narrow-triangular to narrow-oblong, entire, acute to subacute. Corolla 15–20 mm. diam., with hairs on outside of tube.
[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1.]
Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
| Category | Number |
|---|---|
| Indigenous (Endemic) | 2 |
| Total | 2 |
Bibliography
Arroyo, M.T.K. 1984: New species and combinations in Ourisia (Scrophulariaceae) in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 22: 447–463.
Colenso, W. 1885 ("1884"): A description of some newly-discovered and rare indigenous plants; being a further contribution towards the making known the botany of New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 17: 237–265.
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.
Hooker, W.J. 1843: Icones Plantarum. Vol. 6. Baillière, London.
Meudt, H.M. 2006: Monograph of Ourisia (Plantaginaceae). Systematic Botany Monographs 77: 1–188. [as Ourisia colensoi Hook.f.; Ourisia lactea subsp. drucei (L.B.Moore) Arroyo; Ourisia macrophylla Hook. var. macrophylla; Ourisia macrophylla subsp. robusta (Colenso) Arroyo; Ourisia macrophylla var. drucei L.B.Moore; Ourisia macrophylla var. meadii L.B.Moore; Ourisia macrophylla var. robusta (Colenso) G.Simpson & J.S.Thomson; Ourisia robusta Colenso]
Simpson, G.; Thomson, J.S. 1943: Notes on some New Zealand plants and descriptions of new species. Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand 73: 155–171.
