Forstera tenella Hook.f.

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Name scientific

Forstera tenella Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 154 (1853)

Preferred name

Forstera tenella Hook.f.

Taxonomy reference

Glenny, D. 2009: A revision of the genus Forstera (Stylidiaceae) in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 47: 285–315.

Linked name

Forstera tenella Hook.f.

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Original authors

Hook.f.

Authors

Hook.f.

Publication place

Hooker, J.D. 1852–1853 ("1853"): 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. II. Flora Novae-Zelandiae. Part I. Flowering plants. Lovell Reeve, London.

Year published

1853

Publication page

154

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Forstera tenella Hook.f.

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Forstera tenella

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Asterales

Family

Stylidiaceae

Genus

Forstera

Species

tenella

Synonyms

Descriptions

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

Forstera bidwillii Hook.f.

Description

Stems rather slender, decumbent and rooting near base, then ascending to erect, ± branched, up to 2 dm. long, us. shorter. Lvs ascending, then patent to reflexed, us. rather less densely imbricate than in the two previous spp., ± 6-12 × 2-3 mm., linear-oblong to narrowly obovate-oblong to elliptic, obtuse or subacute; costa indistinct, narrow; cartilaginous margins narrow. Peduncles 1-3-fld, up to 10 cm. long, us. shorter, slender. Fls (5)-6-10 mm. long and diam. Bracts narrow-oblong. Calyx-lobes 5-6, ovate. Corolla white; lobes 5-7, obovate-oblong; glands linear, conspicious. Epig. glands 2, subulate. Capsule c. 10 mm. long, narrow-ovoid.

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

Forstera bidwillii var. densifolia Mildbr.

Description

Branches us. several, close-set, ± 4 cm. long. Lvs ± 6-10 × 4 mm. (rarely up to 20 × 6 mm.), very densely imbricate, erect, then patent, very coriac., costa more evident. Bracts ± 6-8 mm. long, linear. Peduncles ± 4-6 cm. long, 1-2-fld. Fls up to 15 mm. long; calyx-lobes ovate-oblong.

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

Forstera tenella Hook.f.

Description

Stems simple or few, very slender, decumbent and rooting near base, ascending or sprawling above. Lvs us. distinctly separated, not imbricate, patent, on petioles c. 1 mm. long. Lamina subcoriac., narrow-oblong to narrow-obovate, (6)-8-10-(15) × 3-5 mm.; margins ± recurved, cartilaginous; costa inconspicuous to obsolete. Peduncles very slender to filiform, 5-10 cm. long, 1-2-3-fld; pedicels up to c. 5 mm. long. Bracts filiform, c. 5 mm. long. Fls 8-10 mm. diam.; calyx-lobes 5-6, broad- to narrow-oblong. Corolla white, 5-6-lobed, 8-9 mm. long; lobes ovate-oblong; glands 2, linear. Epig. glands 2, subulate. Capsule narrow-ovoid, elongating to 8-10 mm. long.