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Dracophyllum muscoides Hook.f.

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Dracophyllum muscoides Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 183 (1864)
Dracophyllum muscoides Hook.f.
Venter, S. 2021: A taxonomic revision of the Australasian genera Dracophyllum and Richea (Richeeae: Styphelioideae: Ericaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 34: 1–205.

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New Zealand
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Hooker, J.D. 1864: Handbook of the New Zealand Flora: a systematic description of the native plants of New Zealand and the Chatham, Kermadec's, Lord Auckland's, Campbell's and Macquarie's Islands. Part I. Reeve, London.
1864
183
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Dracophyllum muscoides Hook.f.
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Dracophyllum muscoides
Likened to a moss cushion.
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.

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Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Ericales
Ericaceae
Dracophyllum
muscoides

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

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.

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Dracophyllum muscoides Hook.f.
Dracophyllum muscoides Hook.f.
Allan, H.H. (1961)
Dracophyllum muscoides Hook.f.
Dracophyllum muscoides Hook.f.
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R. et al. (2013)
Dracophyllum muscoides Hook.f.
Dracophyllum muscoides Hook.f.
Dracophyllum muscoides Hook.f.
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R. et al. (2018)
Dracophyllum muscoides Hook.f.
Dracophyllum muscoides Hook.f.
Dracophyllum muscoides Hook.f.
Venter, S. (2021)
Dracophyllum muscoides Hook.f.

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Dracophyllum muscoides Hook.f.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
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Dracophyllum muscoides Hook.f.
New Zealand
Otago Land District
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Dracophyllum muscoides Hook.f.
New Zealand
Southland Land District
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Dracophyllum muscoides Hook.f.
New Zealand
Westland Land District
2 Link to an external page

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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.

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scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
26 January 2021
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