Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Lamiales Bromhead
Family
Labiatae Juss.
Genus
Teucrium L.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Teucrium parvifolium (Hook.f.) Kattari & Salmaki, Taxon 65: 818 (2016)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Teucridium parvifolium Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 203 (1853)
Type collection: 'Northern and Middle Islands. Wairarapa Valley, Colenso. Akaroa, Raoul. Nelson, Bidwill.' Lectotype (designated by Heenan 2023): 1847, Colenso 287 (K000881353). Syntypes: Colenso 3778 (K000881354); nr. Nelson, N. Zealand, Bidwill 18 (K000881352)
  • = Teucridium parvifolium var. luxurians Cheeseman, Man. New Zealand Fl., ed. 2, 764 (1925)
  • ≡ Teucridium parvifolium f. luxurians (Cheeseman) Moldenke, Phytologia 48: 444 (1981)
Type collection: 'River-flats by the Mangles River, Buller valley, H. H. Allan'. Lectotype: (designated by Heenan 2023). Remnants of forest, (beech, Hoheria, Sophora) on River Flats: Mangles River near Braeburn, 20 January 1922, H. H. Allan s.n. (AK 209583; isolectotype AK 7589).
 Description

Erect closely branched softly wooded shrub up to c. 1·5 m. tall; branchlets 4-angled, pubescent when young. Lvs on petioles ± 4–12 mm. long. Lamina ± 4–12–(15) mm. long, broad-ovate to ovate-oblong to suborbicular, membr., sts irregularly lobed. Fls axillary, solitary or in very small, few-fld cymes on very short, 2-bracted peduncles. Calyx-lobes subulate, persistent; corolla pubescent, white, sts flushed pale blue. Cocci ("pyrenes") hispid.

[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1. as Teucridium parvifolium Hook.f.]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Phenology

Flowering: Oct.–Jan.; Fruiting: Dec.–Mar.

 Bibliography
Cheeseman, T.F. 1925: Manual of the New Zealand Flora. Edition 2. Government Printer, Wellington.
de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A.; Courtney, S.P.; Heenan, P.B.; Barkla, J.W.; Cameron, E.K.; Hitchmough, R.; Townsend, A.J. 2009: Threatened and uncommon plants of New Zealand (2008 revision). New Zealand Journal of Botany 47: 61–96. [as Teucridium parvifolium Hook.f.] [Declining]
de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A.; Heenan, P.B.; Courtney, S.P.; Molloy, B.P.J.; Ogle, C.C.; Rance, B.D. 2004: Threatened and uncommon plants of New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 42(1): 45–76. [as Teucridium parvifolium Hook.f.]
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. [as Teucridium parvifolium Hook.f.] [Declining]
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 Teucridium parvifolium Hook.f.] [Declining]
Hooker, J.D. 1852–1853 ("1853"): The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H.M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror in the Years 1839–1843, under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross. II. Flora Novae-Zelandiae. Part I. Flowering plants. Lovell Reeve, London.
Moldenke, H.N. 1981: Notes on the genus Teucridium (Verbenaceae). Phytologia 48: 439–444.
Salmaki, Y.; Kattari, S.; Heubl, G.; Bräuchler, C. 2016: Phylogeny of non-monophyletic Teucrium (Lamiaceae: Ajugoideae): Implications for character evolution and taxonomy. Taxon 65(4): 805–822.