Notothlaspi australe (Hook.f.) Hook.f.

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Name scientific

Notothlaspi australe (Hook.f.) Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 15, fig. 1 (1864)

Preferred name

Notothlaspi australe (Hook.f.) Hook.f.

Taxonomy reference

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

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Authors

(Hook.f.) Hook.f.

Original authors

Hook.f.

Combination 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

15, fig. 1

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Notothlaspi australe (Hook.f.) Hook.f.

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Notothlaspi australe

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Brassicales

Family

Cruciferae

Genus

Notothlaspi

Species

australe

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Synonyms

Descriptions

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

Notothlaspi australe (Hook.f.) Hook.f.

Description

Fleshy, glab. to sparsely pubescent herb, with basal and cauline lvs; taproot rather slender, deeply descending; branches ∞, slender, spreading, lfy, up to c. 10 cm. long. Lvs 1 to 5 cm. long, crenate to entire, narrow oblong-spathulate to linear-spathulate on narrow flat petioles. Fls us. many, up to 1 cm. diam., corymbosely arranged; sepals 3-5 mm. long, oblong; petals 7-10 mm. long, white, obovate-spathulate (sts drying pink), limb 3-4 mm. broad. Silicles oblong, 8-14 mm. long, on slender pedicels up to 2.5 cm. long; wings ± 2 mm. broad, forming a narrow sinus. Style 2-5 mm. long, far exserted; stigma small. Seeds ∞, testa pitted, red-brown; radicle long, slender.

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