Class
Order
Family
Genus
Classification
Subordinate Taxa
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Ourisia sessilifolia Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 218 (1864)
Description
Stem 3 mm. or more diam., mostly hidden by ± horizontal lvs. Lamina subcoriac., spathulate to suborbicular, narrowing gradually to short broad petiole; margins regularly finely crenate; upper surface and margins densely clad in long tapering hairs, undersurface glab. to variously hairy. Peduncle erect, hairy, often without cauline lvs below floral bracts. Bracts us. in pairs, oblong-spathulate, ± crenate near obtuse apex, both surfaces us. hairy. Pedicels c. ═ corolla in fl., elongating in fr., densely clad in multicellular hairs. Calyx unevenly divided; lobes broad, entire, obtuse to truncate, with hairs as on pedicel. Corolla glab. outside.
[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.
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.
