Epilobium linnaeoides Hook.f.

Details

Name scientific

Epilobium linnaeoides Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. I. (Fl. Antarct.) Part I, 10 (1844)

Preferred name

Epilobium pedunculare A.Cunn.

Taxonomy reference

Raven, P.H.; Raven, T. E. 1976: The Genus Epilobium (Onagraceae) in Australasia: a Systematic and Evolutionary Study. New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Bulletin 216: 1–321.

Nomenclature

Original authors

Hook.f.

Authors

Hook.f.

Publication place

Hooker, J.D. 1844–1845: The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H.M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror in the Years 1839–1843, under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross. I. Flora Antarctica. Part I. Botany of Lord Auckland’s Group and Campbell’s Island. Reeve, Brothers, London.

Year published

1844

Publication page

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Epilobium linnaeoides Hook.f.

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Epilobium linnaeoides

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Myrtales

Family

Onagraceae

Genus

Epilobium

Species

linnaeoides

Descriptions

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

Epilobium linnaeoides Hook.f.

Description

Stems slender, sparingly branched, up to ± 20 cm. long; branches glab, or faintly bifariously pubescent. Lvs opp., on petioles up to 4 mm. long; lamina (6(-8-12 × 6-12 mm., suborbicular to broadly ovate-oblong, thin, membr., pale green, glab.; margins rather closely and sharply toothed. Fls 4-7 mm. diam.; calyx-lobes lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, < petals; petals white to pale rose, deeply cleft, ± 6 mm. long, colour often deepening on drying. Capsules 25-50 mm. long, glab.; peduncles 5-10 cm.; seeds densely papillose.

Taxonomic concepts

Name

Cited name

Reference

Preferred name

Parent name

Epilobium linnaeoides Hook.f.

Epilobium linnaeoides Hook.f.

Allan, H.H. (1961)

Epilobium linnaeoides Hook.f.

Epilobium linnaeoides Hook.f.

Raven, P.H.; Raven, T. E. (1976)

Epilobium pedunculare A.Cunn.

Collections

Determined name

Country

Geographic region

Indicative databased records

Epilobium linnaeoides Hook.f.

New Zealand

Southland Land District

Metadata

Record id

43a13387-0d36-486c-93f3-1cc1e8ebf4e6

Record class

scientific name

Record source

Names_Plants

Date added

24 June 2002

Date last updated

21 January 2025

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