Hebe chathamica (Buchanan) Cockayne & Allan

Details

Name scientific

Hebe chathamica (Buchanan) Cockayne & Allan, Trans. New Zealand Inst. 57: 22 (1926)

Preferred name

Veronica chathamica Buchanan

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

Combination authors

Cockayne & Allan

Original authors

Buchanan

Authors

(Buchanan) 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

Veronica chathamica Buchanan

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Hebe chathamica

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Lamiales

Family

Plantaginaceae

Genus

Hebe

Species

chathamica

Descriptions

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

Hebe chathamica (Buchanan) Cockayne & Allan

Description

Small prostrate rambling shrub. Branchlets slender, rarely quite glab., internodes short to long. Lvs tending to lie in one plane, (8)-15-36 × 5-12 mm., elliptic to obovate-oblong, rather thick, fleshy, pale green; lf-bud without sinus, the lf-base narrowing gradually to little more than branchlet-width; lamina obtuse to subacute, entire with narrow cartilaginous border. Infls lateral, simple, peduncle c. = flowering portion which is compact and almost as broad as long. Fls pedicellate, bracts often linear and = pedicels. Calyx-lobes linear-lanceolate, acute. Corolla "dark purple", tube little > calyx, lobes c. = tube, rounded. Capsule short and broad, us. < 2 × calyx.

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