Hebe acutiflora (Hook.f.) Cockayne

Details

Name scientific

Hebe acutiflora (Hook.f.) Cockayne, Trans. New Zealand Inst. 60: 468 (1929)

Preferred name

Veronica rivalis Garn.-Jones

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

Authors

(Hook.f.) Cockayne

Original authors

Hook.f.

Combination authors

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

468

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Veronica ligustrifolia var. acutiflora Hook.f.

Based on

Veronica acutiflora Benth.

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Hebe acutiflora

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Lamiales

Family

Plantaginaceae

Genus

Hebe

Species

acutiflora

Descriptions

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

Hebe acutiflora (Hook.f.) Cockayne

Description

Small, erect, sparingly branched shrub. Branchlets glab. to minutely pubescent, length of internodes several × diam. Lvs spreading, c. 4-8 cm. × 5-7 mm., linear-lanceolate, subcoriac.; lf-bud without sinus; lamina gradually tapering to narrow obtuse tip, entire, glab. except for minute hairs on margin and above midrib. Infls lateral, simple, us. > lvs, peduncle 1-2 cm. long. Bracts to 3 mm. long, linear, acute, pubescent, pedicel longer. Calyx-lobes c. 3 mm. long, very narrow and acute, pubescent. Corolla white or faintly lavender, tube broad, < calyx, lobes > tube, acute. Capsule c. 3 × 2.5 mm., broadly rounded, little > calyx.

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