Ourisia colensoi Hook.f.
Details
Ourisia colensoi Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 218 (1864)
Nomenclature
Hook.f.
Hook.f.
1864
218
ICN
Ourisia colensoi Hook.f.
species
Ourisia colensoi
Classification
Descriptions
Ourisia colensoi Hook.f.
Stem prostrate and rooting, us. < 1 cm. diam., terminating in tuft of ± erect lvs. Lamina submembr., c. 1-3 cm. × 8-20 mm., ovate, regularly shallowly crenate-dentate, base rounded, upper surface uniformly and rather closely covered with short hairs, hairs on undersurface confined to veins; petiole channelled, narrow, us. > lamina, with scattered to crowded hairs. Peduncle hairy, erect, much > lvs, rarely > 20 cm. tall in fr., us. with 2 or 3 ± sessile cauline lvs below floral bracts. Bracts in (1)-2-3 whorls, 2-5-(7) per whorl, subentire and decreasing in size upwards; hairs almost confined to margins. Pedicels up to as many as bracts in each whorl and longer, up to 3 cm. long, clad in flexuous tapering non-glandular hairs. Calyx-clefts all reaching almost to base; lobes c. 5-6 × 1 mm., entire, acute to subacute, hairs few to many, non-glandular. Corolla 15-20 mm. diam., hairs on outside of tube sts sparse or confined to base of posterior lobes.
Taxonomic concepts
Ourisia colensoi Hook.f.
Ourisia colensoi Hook.f.
Metadata
69cc27c6-3025-49f6-a3e1-ced79a89673d
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
23 April 2026