Leptecophylla robusta (Hook.f.) C.M.Weiller

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Name scientific

Leptecophylla robusta (Hook.f.) C.M.Weiller, Muelleria 12: 210 (2000)

Preferred name

Leptecophylla robusta (Hook.f.) C.M.Weiller

Taxonomy reference

Weiller, C.M. 2000: Leptecophylla, a new genus for species formerly Included in Cyathodes (Epacridaceae). Muelleria 12(2): 195–214.

Linked name

Leptecophylla robusta (Hook.f.) C.M.Weiller

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Weiller, C.M. (2000)

Nomenclature

Combination authors

C.M.Weiller

Original authors

Hook.f.

Authors

(Hook.f.) C.M.Weiller

Publication place

Weiller, C.M. 2000: Leptecophylla, a new genus for species formerly Included in Cyathodes (Epacridaceae). Muelleria 12(2): 195–214.

Year published

2000

Publication page

210

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Cyathodes robusta Hook.f.

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Leptecophylla robusta

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Ericales

Family

Ericaceae

Genus

Leptecophylla

Species

robusta

Vernacular names

Language of use: English

Chatham Island mingimingi

Language of use: Moriori

Pouteretere

Synonyms

Descriptions

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

Cyathodes robusta Hook.f.

Description

Similar to but much stouter, up to c. 5 m. tall. Lvs coriac., rigid, patent, 12-20 × 3-7 mm., 5-11-nerved, narrow-oblong to narrow-lanceolate, subsessile to shortly petioled; margins recurved; apex obtuse to subacute, callous tip blunt. Infl. of solitary axillary fls on curved peduncles. Bracts many, imbricate, broad, obtuse. Fls c. 3 mm. long; corolla-tube but little > calyx, lobes glab. on upper surface. Fr. red, globose, 7-12 mm. diam.

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