Gaultheria crassa Allan

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Name scientific

Gaultheria crassa Allan, Fl. New Zealand 1, 508 (1961)

Preferred name

Gaultheria crassa Allan

Taxonomy reference

Franklin, D.A. 1962: The Ericaceae in New Zealand (Gaultheria and Pernettya). Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand. Botany 1: 155–173.

Linked name

Gaultheria crassa Allan 1961

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Original authors

Allan

Authors

Allan

Publication place

Allan, H.H. 1961: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. I. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledones. Government Printer, Wellington.

Year published

1961

Publication page

508

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Gaultheria crassa Allan

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Gaultheria crassa

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Ericales

Family

Ericaceae

Genus

Gaultheria

Species

crassa

Synonyms

Descriptions

Allan, H.H. 1961: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. I. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledones. Government Printer, Wellington.

Gaultheria crassa Allan

Description

Stout, much-branched, up to c. 1 m. tall, dwarfed at the higher altitudes; branchlets with sparse setose hairs. Lvs on stout petioles ± 1 mm. long; lamina very thick and coriac., subrigid, brownish green; 10-15-(20) × 5-7-(10) mm., us. shallowly concavo-convex, us. apiculate; margins finely crenulate-serrulate. Racemes up to ± 4 cm. long with pubescent axis and pedicels, terminal and subterminal, simple or forming panicles. Pedicels up to c. 5 mm. long; bracteoles oblong- to triangular-ovate, subacute, c. 2 mm. long. Calyx deeply cut; lobes triangular-ovate,± 2.5 mm. long, ± denticulate. Corolla pubescent within; tube urceolate, ± 3·5 mm. long; lobes triangular, obtuse, recurved; style cylindric, c. 2 mm. long; filaments c. 1·5 mm. long, widened near base, then abruptly narrowed to insertion; anther-cells with 2 distinct awns. Capsule ± 2 mm. diam., loosely invested by persistent dry calyx.

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

Gaultheria crassa Allan

Description

n = 11

Description

n = 11

Franklin, D.A. 1962: The Ericaceae in New Zealand (Gaultheria and Pernettya). Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand. Botany 1: 155–173.

Gaultheria crassa Allan

Description

An erect or scrambling shrub up to 1.5 metres high. Branchlets more or less strigose, with or without a sparse pubescence. Leaves alternate, 10-20 × 6-12 mm, petiolate, oblong-elliptical, elliptical, or elliptical-orbicular, extremely thick, apex acute but not mucronate, margins bluntly serrulate or crenulate, teeth armed with bristles in the growing leaf, but bristles deciduous, making teeth appear rounded, upper surface with or without a sparse pubescence along the midrib, lower surface completely glabrous, veins very conspicuous. Inflorescence of axillary racemes, sometimes crowded together at the ends of branches. Peduncle and pedicels sparsely pubescent. Corolla pubescent within.

Webb, C.J.; Sykes, W.R.; Garnock-Jones, P.J. 1988: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. IV. Naturalised Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms, Dicotyledons. Botany Division DSIR, Christchurch.

Gaultheria crassa Allan

Description

Stout, much-branched shrub, to c. 1 m tall, dwarfed at higher altitudes; branchlets with sparse setose hairs. Lvs alternate; petioles very short, stout. Lamina 7-15-(25) × 5-7-(10) mm, narrow- to broad- elliptic or suborbicular, very thick and coriaceous, usually shallowly concave above; margins finely crenulate-serrulate; base ± rounded; apex rounded to acute or apiculate. Racemes to ± 4 cm long, with hairy axes, terminal and subterminal, simple or sometimes forming panicles; pedicels to c. 5 mm long, glabrous or puberulent; bracteoles oblong to triangular-ovate, subacute, c. 2 mm long. Calyx lobes triangular-ovate, 2.5-3 mm long, acute or short-acuminate. Corolla urceolate; tube c. 3.5 mm long; lobes triangular, obtuse. Capsule c. 2 mm diam., loosely invested by persistent dry calyx.