Dracophyllum ×varium Colenso

Details

Name scientific

Dracophyllum ×varium Colenso, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 28: 603 (1896)

Preferred name

Dracophyllum ×varium Colenso

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Exotic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Original authors

Colenso

Authors

Colenso

Publication place

Colenso, W. 1896: Phænogams: A description of a few more 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 28: 591–613.

Year published

1896

Publication page

603

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Dracophyllum ×varium Colenso

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Dracophyllum ×varium

Typification

Type: H. Hill, 1895, Ruahine Range, WELT 23616, image seen. Label says holotype, collected by H. Hill.

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Ericales

Family

Ericaceae

Genus

Dracophyllum

Species

×varium

Hybridisation

Hybrid name

Dracophyllum longifolium (J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.) R.Br. ex Roemer & Schult. × Dracophyllum recurvum Hook.f.

Notes

Note type

editorial

Note text

Colenso published it as a species, not a hybrid. The type is very close to D. recurvum. Leaves are 2 mm wide which is within range of D. recurvum. There is a flower in a micropacket. Colenso’s description is very detailed. Flowers terminal, in short stout spikes, 8-10-22 flowered, suggests the type has lost a whole inflorescence.

Note type

typification

Note text

Type: H. Hill, 1895, Ruahine Range, WELT 23616, image seen. Label says holotype, collected by H. Hill.

Metadata

Record id

1ada8818-18f2-4edf-97f6-a387cebec592

Record class

scientific name

Record source

Names_Plants

Date added

23 November 2021

Date last updated

25 January 2024

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