Hebe imbricata Cockayne & Allan

Details

Name scientific

Hebe imbricata Cockayne & Allan, Trans. New Zealand Inst. 57: 42 (1926)

Preferred name

Veronica poppelwellii Cockayne

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

Cockayne & Allan

Authors

Cockayne & Allan

Publication place

Cockayne, L.; Allan, H.H. 1926: The present taxonomic status of the New Zealand species of Hebe. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute 57: 11–47.

Year published

1926

Publication page

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Hebe imbricata Cockayne & Allan

Based on

Veronica imbricata Petrie

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Hebe imbricata

Typification

Lectotype (designated by Ashwin, in Allan 1961): Mt Cleughearn, J. Crosby Smith, WELT 5345

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Lamiales

Family

Plantaginaceae

Genus

Hebe

Species

imbricata

Subordinates

Descriptions

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

Hebe imbricata Cockayne & Allan

Description

Erect, much-branched, round-headed shrub 4-6 dm. tall. Branchlets 2-2.5 mm. diam., ± terete, rather rigid, glossy; internodes c. 1 mm. long, entirely hidden; nodal joint well-marked. Lvs c. 1*5 mm. long, connate up to ? length, broad-ovate, thick, closely appressed, ribbed, ± keeled, tip rounded and incurved. Bracts 2 mm. long, ovate, obtuse, ribbed. Calyx c. 2 mm. long, anterior lobes oblong, obtuse, ribbed, free for 1/2 to ⅔ length. Corolla-tube ± = calyx. Capsule c. 3 mm. long, oval, obtuse, = or slightly > calyx.

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