Hebe colensoi (Hook.f.) Cockayne

Details

Name scientific

Hebe colensoi (Hook.f.) Cockayne, Trans. New Zealand Inst. 60: 469 (1929)

Preferred name

Veronica colensoi Hook.f.

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

Original authors

Hook.f.

Authors

(Hook.f.) Cockayne

Publication place

Cockayne, L. 1929: New combinations in the genus Hebe. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute 60: 465–472.

Year published

1929

Publication page

469

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Veronica colensoi Hook.f.

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Hebe colensoi

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Lamiales

Family

Plantaginaceae

Genus

Hebe

Species

colensoi

Subordinates

Hebe colensoi var. hillii

Descriptions

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

Hebe colensoi (Hook.f.) Cockayne

Description

Low-growing shrub of open or bushy habit, rarely as much as 75 cm. tall. Branchlets glab., glaucous, length of internodes 1-2-(3) × diam. Lvs erecto-patent, obovate- to elliptic-oblong, thick, glaucous on both surfaces; lf-bud with narrow sinus, the lamina extending as a diminishing wing almost to lf-base; lamina glab., subacute, toothed to entire, margins slightly revolute. Infls lateral (occ. terminal also), the lowest pair or two pairs of racemes often tripartite, > lvs and us. projecting beyond vegetative tip; peduncle 1-2 cm. long, glab. Fls white, almost sessile. Bracts c. 2 mm. long, narrow, subacute to acute, quite glab. Calyx-lobes very similar to bracts. Corolla-tube not > calyx, lobes longer, narrow, subacute. Capsule glab., < 2 × calyx.

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