Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Lamiales Bromhead
Family
Plantaginaceae Juss.
Genus
Ourisia Comm. ex Juss.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Ourisia vulcanica L.B.Moore in Allan, Fl. New Zealand 1, 967-868 (1961)
 Description

Stem much branched, mostly buried and rooting at nodes, ascending at tip, 2–3 mm. diam., glab., the plant us. forming a lfy mat up to c. 10 cm. diam. Lvs crowded, ± appressed to ground; lamina almost fleshy, 10–25×6–15 mm., narrow- to broad-ovate, rather regularly shallowly crenate, glab. except on margins and underside of midrib; petiole c. ═ lamina, narrow, channelled, with some long hairs. Peduncle erect, us. < 12 cm. long, hairy. Bracts in 1–3 pairs, us. subentire with marginal hairs. Pedicels as many as bracts or fewer, > fls, clad in long tapering hairs. Calyx 6–7 mm. long in fl., split anteriorally almost to base, the other clefts us. shorter; lobes c. 2 mm. wide, obtuse or posterior ones retuse, sparsely hairy on margins and occ. towards inflated base. Corolla c. 1·5 cm. diam., glab. outside. Capsule sts > calyx.

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

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Phenology

Flowering: Oct.–Jan.–(Feb.); Fruiting: Dec.–Feb.

 Bibliography
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]
Meudt, H.M. 2006: Monograph of Ourisia (Plantaginaceae). Systematic Botany Monographs 77: 1–188.