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Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Rhabdothamnus solandri A.Cunn.
Vernacular Name(s):
Kaikaiatua; Kaikai-atua; mātā; mātātā; New Zealand gloxinia; Taurepo; Waiūatua
Description
Much-branched scabrous shrub up to c. 2 m. tall, with opp. branches and branchlets. Hairs stiff, conical, several-celled. Lvs on slender petioles up to ± 10 mm. long. Lamina broad-ovate to suborbicular, coarsely serrate-dentate, (1)–2–3–(5) × 1·5–3–(5) cm., appearing grey-green owing to indumentum. Fls nodding, 2–2.5 cm. long, solitary on slender pedicels up to 2–(4) cm. long. Calyx ± 1 cm. long, pilose, lobes ovate- to triangular-acuminate. Corolla us. orange with red veins; lobes spreading, ciliolate, up to c. 2 cm. long. Staminal filaments slender, incurved above. Disk annular, obscure; style curved at apex, ± 15 mm. long; stigma small, rather obscurely 2-lobed. Capsule ± 7–10 mm. long, invested by persistent calyx, ovoid, tapering to apex, placentae thick, 2-lobed; seeds ∞, ovoid.
[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1.]
Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
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. [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]
