Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Gentianales Juss. ex Bercht. & J.Presl
Family
Loganiaceae
Genus
Schizacme Dunlop
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Schizacme novae-zelandiae (Hook.f.) K.L.Gibbons, Telopea 17: 372-374 (2014)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Mitrasacme novae-zelandiae Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 737 (1867)
 Description

Glab. compact perennial herb, forming rather mosslike patches ± 5 cm. diam. and tall; branches slender, ascending. Lvs densely imbricate, ± connate at base, (2)–3–5–(5·5) mm. long, narrow-oblong to narrow-obovate, subcoriac., concavo-convex, margins thickened; acicles 0·5–1–(2) mm. long. Fls solitary, terminal, minute, hidden by lvs or nearly so. Calyx-lobes similar to lvs in shape; corolla-lobes obtuse; Staminal filaments very short, anthers broad-oblong in outline, didymous; styles short, free. Capsule subcoriac., depressed; valves 2, spreading at apex.

[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1. as Mitrasacme novae-zelandiae Hook.f.]

 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. [as Mitrasacme novae-zelandiae Hook.f.] [Not Threatened]
Gibbons, K.L.; Conn, B.J.; Henwood, M.J. 2014: The Australasian genus Schizacme (Loganiaceae): new combinations and new species in the New Zealand flora. Telopea 17: 363–381.
Hooker, J.D. 1867: 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 Macquarrie's Islands. Part II. Reeve, London.