Hebe stenophylla var. oliveri Bayly & Garn.-Jones

Details

Name scientific

Hebe stenophylla var. oliveri Bayly & Garn.-Jones in Bayly et al., New Zealand J. Bot. 38: 182 (2000)

Preferred name

Veronica stenophylla var. oliveri (Bayly & Garn.-Jones) Garn.-Jones

Taxonomy reference

Garnock-Jones, P.J. 2023: Veronica. In: Breitwieser, I. (ed.) Flora of New Zealand – Seed Plants. Fascicle 9. Manaaki Whenua Press, Lincoln.

Nomenclature

Original authors

Bayly & Garn.-Jones

Authors

Bayly & Garn.-Jones

Publication place

Bayly, M.J.; Garnock-Jones, P.J.; Mitchell, K.A.; Markham, K.R.; Brownsey, P.J. 2000: A taxonomic revision of the Hebe parviflora complex (Scrophulariaceae), based on morphology and flavonoid chemistry. New Zealand Journal of Botany 38(2): 165–190.

Year published

2000

Publication page

182

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Hebe stenophylla var. oliveri Bayly & Garn.-Jones

Taxonomic rank

var.

Canonical form

Hebe stenophylla var. oliveri

Etymology

The epithet oliveri honours Dr W.R.B. Oliver (1883–1957), Director of the Dominion Museum, who first collected it.

Typification

Holotype: Stephens Island, W. R. B. Oliver, Jan 1922, WELT 64970. Isotype: WELT 15028

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Lamiales

Family

Plantaginaceae

Genus

Hebe

Species

stenophylla

Descriptions

Hebe stenophylla var. oliveri Bayly & Garn.-Jones

Description

Branchlets glabrous or bifariously puberulent. Leaves lanceolate or elliptic, 22-37 mm long, 5-10 mm wide; adaxial surface mostly smooth, not conspicuously pitted except toward margins, stomata sparse except near apex; margins broad, glabrous or with very fine hairs. Inflorescences 26-60 mm long. Corolla tube glabrous within, 2.5-3.8 mm long.

Diagnosis

Varietas Hebis stenophyllae, a varietatibus aliis characteribus secundis combinatis differt: foliis lanceolatis vel ellipticis, 22-37 mm longis, 5-10 mm latis; paginis foliorum adaxialibus stomatibus et pilis glanduliferis depressis paucis; tubo corollae intra glabro, 2.5-3.8 mm longo.

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