Gaultheria depressa var. novae-zealandiae D.A.Franklin

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Name scientific

Gaultheria depressa var. novae-zealandiae D.A.Franklin, Trans. Roy. Soc. New Zealand, Bot. 1: 163 (1962)

Preferred name

Gaultheria depressa var. novae-zealandiae D.A.Franklin

Taxonomy reference

Franklin, D.A. 1962: The Ericaceae in New Zealand (Gaultheria and Pernettya). Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand. Botany 1: 155–173.

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Authors

D.A.Franklin

Original authors

D.A.Franklin

Publication place

Franklin, D.A. 1962: The Ericaceae in New Zealand (Gaultheria and Pernettya). Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand. Botany 1: 155–173.

Year published

1962

Publication page

163

Orthography

Gaultheria depressa var. novae-zelandiae

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Gaultheria depressa var. novae-zealandiae D.A.Franklin

Taxonomic rank

var.

Canonical form

Gaultheria depressa var. novae-zealandiae

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Ericales

Family

Ericaceae

Genus

Gaultheria

Species

depressa

Descriptions

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

Gaultheria depressa var. novae-zealandiae D.A.Franklin

Description

n = 11

Description

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Franklin, D.A. 1962: The Ericaceae in New Zealand (Gaultheria and Pernettya). Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand. Botany 1: 155–173.

Gaultheria depressa var. novae-zealandiae D.A.Franklin

Description

Branchlets often forming dense matted patches, more or less strigose and often with a sparse very short pubescence. Leaves 6-9 × 3-6 mm (sometimes smaller in exposed plants), obovate to elliptic, apex usually acute, margins bluntly serrate, teeth sometimes armed with bristles when very young, but bristles deciduous leaving short spikes, veins very conspicuous, usually impressed. Pedicels usually both strigose and pubescent.

Diagnosis

Ramuli strigosi saepe sparse brevissime pubescentes. Folia obovata ellipticave, apice acutiusculo marginibus obtuse serratis, dentes setis deciduis armati, venis conspicuis. Pedicelli strigosi pubescentesque.