Phormium cookianum Le Jol.

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Name scientific

Phormium cookianum Le Jol., London J. Bot. 7: 536 (1848)

Preferred name

Phormium cookianum Le Jol.

Taxonomy reference

Moore, L.B.; Edgar, E. 1970: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. II. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Monocotyledones except Gramineae. Botany Division DSIR, Wellington.

Linked name

Phormium cookianum Le Jol.

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Original authors

Le Jol.

Authors

Le Jol.

Publication place

Le Jolis, A. 1848: On a new kind of Phormium, or New Zealand flax. London Journal of Botany 7: 533–537.

Year published

1848

Publication page

536

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Phormium cookianum Le Jol.

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Phormium cookianum

Typification

Type: There is original material at P and presumably at CHE. The two candidate specimens in P are both labelled ‘P. Colensoi Hook.’ and ‘Donnée par M. Decaisne’ (i.e. ‘donated by Mr Decaisne’)

Earp, C. 2023: The nomenclatural history of Phormium colensoi Hook.f. New Zealand Journal of Botany 61(2-3): 89–117. (Published online: 2022 https://doi.org/10.1080/0028825X.2022.2093119 )

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Asparagales

Family

Asphodelaceae

Genus

Phormium

Species

cookianum

Subordinates

Vernacular names

Language of use: English

Language of use: Māori

Synonyms

Descriptions

Dawson, M.I. 2008: Index of chromosome numbers of indigenous New Zealand vascular plants.

Phormium cookianum Le Jol.

Description

2n = 32

Description

n = 16

Description

n = 16

Moore, L.B.; Edgar, E. 1970: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. II. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Monocotyledones except Gramineae. Botany Division DSIR, Wellington.

Phormium cookianum Le Jol.

Description

Lvs mostly < 2 m. long, not so stiff as in and inclined to droop; butt us. pale. Infl. to c. 2 m. tall; peduncle c. 2–3 cm. diam., often inclined, dark, terete, glab. Fls 2.5–4 cm. long, us. predominantly greenish, often with tones of orange or yellow; tips of inner tepals us. markedly recurved, one us. more than the other two. Ovary erect, but carpels sts twisted in half turn from base to tip. Capsule often > 10 cm. long, occ. to 20 cm., pendulous, almost circular in T.S., gradually narrowed to tip, twisted and becoming pale, fibrous, and more spirally curled in age. Seeds c. 8–10 mm. long, very like those of . 2n = 32.