Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Asterales Link
Family
Stylidiaceae
Genus
Phyllachne J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Phyllachne colensoi (Hook.f.) Berggr.
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Helophyllum colensoi Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 168 (1864)
  • = Helophyllum muscoides Colenso, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 26: 318 (1894)
 Description

Cushions up to c. 10 cm. tall, often shorter and matlike. Lvs c. 4 mm. long, thick, coriac., ± glossy, dark-green, appressed, very closely imbricate, tapering from base c. 2 mm. wide to obtuse apex c. 0·5 mm. diam. Pore on back near apex. Bracts narrow-triangular, ± 2-toothed; hairs few, apical. Calyx-lobes about oblong, ciliolate at apex. Corolla-lobes white, spreading, ovate-oblong. Column slender, far-exserted, anthers us. purplish, subreniform. Capsule white, c. 2 mm. diam.; seeds up to 8.

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

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Non-endemic)
 Phenology

Flowering: Nov.–Feb.; Fruiting: Jan.–Apr.

 Bibliography
Colenso, W. 1894: Phænogams: A description of some 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 26: 313–320.
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. [Not Threatened]
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]
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.