Dracophyllum muscoides Hook.f.
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Dracophyllum muscoides Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 183 (1864)
Dracophyllum muscoides Hook.f.
Nomenclature
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Hook.f.
1864
183
ICN
Dracophyllum muscoides Hook.f.
species
Dracophyllum muscoides
Type: New Zealand. Alps of Otago, Mount Alta and Hector’s Col, 7000–8000 feet [~2133–2438 m], 1864. J. Hector & J. Buchanan s.n. (holo: K!). The type sheet comprises three different collections made by different people and at different localities. The eight specimens in the top left-hand corner of the sheet are the Hector and Buchanan material and was determined here as such.
Classification
Associations
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Descriptions
Dracophyllum muscoides Hook.f.
Plant with woody subterranean stems and very close-set subherbaceous slender erect branches up to c. 4 cm. tall; branchlets ± 25 × 2.5 mm., including the densely imbricate lvs. Sheath broad-ovate, c. 1 mm. long with thin margins, rather abruptly tapering into shining, rigid, ovate-subulate, minutely ciliolate lamina c. 2 mm. long; apex obtuse. Lower lvs sts without subulate apex. Fls solitary, terminal, ± 3-4 mm. long. Sepals = corolla-tube, ovate, rather abruptly narrowed to obtuse tip. Corolla white; tube cylindric, 2-5 mm, long, lobes broad, obtuse to subacute.
Taxonomic concepts
Dracophyllum muscoides Hook.f.
Dracophyllum muscoides Hook.f.
Dracophyllum muscoides Hook.f.
Dracophyllum muscoides Hook.f.
Dracophyllum muscoides Hook.f.
Dracophyllum muscoides Hook.f.
Dracophyllum muscoides Hook.f.
Dracophyllum muscoides Hook.f.
Dracophyllum muscoides Hook.f.
Collections
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typification
Type: New Zealand. Alps of Otago, Mount Alta and Hector’s Col, 7000–8000 feet [~2133–2438 m], 1864. J. Hector & J. Buchanan s.n. (holo: K!). The type sheet comprises three different collections made by different people and at different localities. The eight specimens in the top left-hand corner of the sheet are the Hector and Buchanan material and was determined here as such.
Etymology
Likened to a moss cushion.
Metadata
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scientific name
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1 January 2000
26 January 2021