Myoporum rapense subsp. kermadecense (Sykes) Chinnock

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Name scientific

Myoporum rapense subsp. kermadecense (Sykes) Chinnock, Eremophila and allied genera 138 (2007)

Preferred name

Myoporum rapense subsp. kermadecense (Sykes) Chinnock

Taxonomy reference

Chinnock, R.J. 2007: Eremophila and allied genera, a momograph of the plant family Myoporaceae. Rosenberg Publishing Pty Ltd.

Linked name

Myoporum rapense subsp. kermadecense (Sykes) Chinnock

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Sykes, W.R. (1987)

endemic to the Kermadec Islands

Nomenclature

Combination authors

Chinnock

Original authors

Sykes

Authors

(Sykes) Chinnock

Publication place

Chinnock, R.J. 2007: Eremophila and allied genera, a momograph of the plant family Myoporaceae. Rosenberg Publishing Pty Ltd.

Year published

2007

Publication page

138

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Myoporum rapense subsp. kermadecense (Sykes) Chinnock

Taxonomic rank

subsp.

Canonical form

Myoporum rapense subsp. kermadecense

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Lamiales

Family

Scrophulariaceae

Genus

Myoporum

Species

rapense

Vernacular names

Language of use: English

kermadec ngaio

Synonyms

Myoporum kermadecense Sykes

Descriptions

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

Myoporum kermadecense Sykes

Description

2n = 108

Webb, C.J.; Sykes, W.R.; Garnock-Jones, P.J. 1988: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. IV. Naturalised Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms, Dicotyledons. Botany Division DSIR, Christchurch.

Low shrub to slender tree to c. 13 m high, with rough and furrowed bark, of rather open habit. Buds usually purplish black, sometimes green, viscid. Petiole to c. 1.5 cm long, usually less on adult shoots, scarcely distinct from the attenuate lamina base. Lamina 3.5-9-(11) × 0.7-3-(4) cm (to 16 × 5 cm on juvenile shoots), usually narrowly elliptic or narrowly lanceolate-elliptic, sometimes elliptic or elliptic-obovate, membranous to semi-succulent, punctate but glands scarcely visible except in some juvenile lvs, usually serrulate, very rarely entire (serrate in some juvenile lvs); apex ± acuminate. Fls (1)-2-5; pedicels 1-1.4 cm long at anthesis. Calyx lobed to near base; lobes 2.7-3.5 mm long, narrow-triangular to narrow-lanceolate, acuminate. Corolla 1.1-1.5 cm diam., white, purple-dotted and white-bearded inside, glandular-punctate; lobes almost = tube. Style hairy. Drupe 5-8-(10) mm long, oblong to ovoid, usually mauve, occasionally white.