Hectorella Hook.f.

Details

Name scientific

Hectorella Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 27 (1864)

Preferred name

Hectorella Hook.f.

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Original authors

Hook.f.

Authors

Hook.f.

Publication place

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.

Year published

1864

Publication page

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Hectorella Hook.f.

Type taxon

Hectorella caespitosa Hook.f.

Taxonomic rank

genus

Canonical form

Hectorella

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Caryophyllales

Family

Montiaceae

Genus

Hectorella

Subordinates

Descriptions

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

Hectorella Hook.f.

Description

Fls hermaphrodite, terminal on short lateral branches; two outer members variously interpreted as sepals or prophylls enclosing petaloid per. of 5 imbricate members; stamens 5, hypog., alternating with per. segs; filaments long and adnate to per. at base, anthers dorsifixed and extrorse; ovary unilocular, ovoid, narrowed into erect style with 2 triangular stigma lobes alternating with prophylls; ovules 4-5, on slender funicles, embryo curved. Fr. capsular but ind. Densely tufted glab. perennial cushion plants with entire lvs imbricated all round stem. Monotypic genus confined to N.Z.