Dracophyllum adamsii Petrie

Details

Name scientific

Dracophyllum adamsii Petrie, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 55: 435 (1924)

Preferred name

Dracophyllum sinclairii Cheeseman

Taxonomy reference

Venter, S. 2021: A taxonomic revision of the Australasian genera Dracophyllum and Richea (Richeeae: Styphelioideae: Ericaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 34: 1–205.

Nomenclature

Authors

Petrie

Original authors

Petrie

Publication place

Petrie, D. 1924: Descriptions of new native flowering-plants. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 55: 434–437.

Year published

1924

Publication page

435

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Dracophyllum adamsii Petrie

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Dracophyllum adamsii

Typification

Type: New Zealand. Waiapu County, roadside near mouth of Awatere River, Jan. 1897. J. Adams & D. Petrie s.n.(lecto: WELT 55082!; isolecto: CHR 332735!, WELT 55081!, 55084!, WELTU 4240!.), designated by Oliver (1952).

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Ericales

Family

Ericaceae

Genus

Dracophyllum

Species

adamsii

Descriptions

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

Dracophyllum adamsii Petrie

Description

Erect shrub, up to c. 1m. tall; branches rather close-set, slender; branchlets very slender, ∞.Lvs thin, imbricate; sheath truncate, not or obseurely auricled, (6)-8 × (2.5)-5 mm. Lamina linear, flat, ± 65-75 × 2-3 mm., gradually narrowed into long acuminate subpungent apex. Infl. of slender spikelike 4-5-(10)-fld racemes ± 2-3 cm. long. Bracts caducous, broad-ovate, apiculate, ciliate. Fls approximate, nearly sessile; sepals broad-ovate-lanceolate, acute, thin, ciliolate, c. 4 mm. long. Corolla-tube c. 5 mm. long, subcylindric; lobes white, ovate, subacute, patent to reflexed; anthers hardly exserted. Capsule c. 3 mm. diam.