Melicytus alpinus (Kirk) Garn.-Jones

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Name scientific

Melicytus alpinus (Kirk) Garn.-Jones in Connor & Edgar, New Zealand J. Bot. 25: 127 (1987)

Preferred name

Melicytus alpinus (Kirk) Garn.-Jones

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Authors

(Kirk) Garn.-Jones

Original authors

Kirk

Combination authors

Garn.-Jones

Publication place

Connor, H.E.; Edgar, E. 1987: Name changes in the indigenous New Zealand flora, 1960–1986 and Nomina Nova IV, 1983–1986. New Zealand Journal of Botany 25: 115–170.

Year published

1987

Publication page

127

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Hymenanthera dentata var. alpina Kirk

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Melicytus alpinus

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Malpighiales

Family

Violaceae

Genus

Melicytus

Species

alpinus

Vernacular names

Language of use: English

Porcupine shrub

Synonyms

Associations

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is host of

Frullania falciloba Lehm.

CHR (1 records from [Not available].)

is host of

Haematomma babingtonii A.Massal.

CHR (1 records from [Not available].)

is host of

Ileostylus micranthus (Hook.f.) Tiegh.

CHR (1 records from [Not available].)

is host of

Ileostylus Tiegh.

CHR (1 records from [Not available].)

is host of

Menegazzia nothofagi (Zahlbr.) P.James & D.J.Galloway

CHR (1 records from [Not available].)

is host of

Usnea cornuta Körb.

CHR (1 records from [Not available].)

Descriptions

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

Hymenanthera alpina (Kirk) W.R.B.Oliv.

Description

Kirk's description is: " Depressed, 1 ft.-2 ft. high. Branches very short, rigid, stout, usually terminating in a stout spine. Bark whitish, lenticellate. Leaves less than 1/2 in. long, usually fascicled, very coriaceous, oblong-obovate; petioles very short. Flowers on very short straight peduncles. Sepals erosulate-ciliate. Petals broad, recurved. Anthers very broad, connective much produced, nearly entire; dorsal scale broadly cuneate. Style slender; stigmas 2, spreading. Fruit not seen. SOUTH Island: Alps of Canterbury and Otago. 2,000 ft. to 4,000 ft. A remark- able plant, forming a mass of very short stout spinous branches. Possibly a distinct species. Dec., Jan." Frs subglobose, ± 5 mm. diam., white ± purple-flecked.

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