Veronica urvilleana (W.R.B.Oliv.) Garn.-Jones

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Name scientific

Veronica urvilleana (W.R.B.Oliv.) Garn.-Jones in Garnock-Jones et al., Taxon 56: 580 (2007)

Preferred name

Veronica urvilleana (W.R.B.Oliv.) 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.

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Combination authors

Garn.-Jones

Original authors

W.R.B.Oliv.

Authors

(W.R.B.Oliv.) Garn.-Jones

Publication place

Garnock-Jones, P.J.; Albach, D.; Briggs, B.G. 2007: Botanical names in Southern Hemisphere Veronica (Plantaginaceae): sect. Detzneria, sect. Hebe, and sect. Labiatoides. Taxon 56: 571–582.

Year published

2007

Publication page

580

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Hebe urvilleana W.R.B.Oliv.

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Veronica urvilleana

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Lamiales

Family

Plantaginaceae

Genus

Veronica

Species

urvilleana

Synonyms

Hebe urvilleana W.R.B.Oliv.

Descriptions

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

Hebe urvilleana W.R.B.Oliv.

Description

Laxly branched shrub to 1·5 m. tall. Branchlets slender, bifariously pubescent when young, lf-scar remaining obvious. Lvs elliptic, 10-25 × 4-9 mm., not strongly glaucous but undersurface often dull; lf-bud without sinus; lamina us. narrowed gradually to tip, margin entire, glab., bevelled. Infls lateral, simple, little > lvs. Bracts < short pedicels. Calyx-lobes 1-1·5 mm. long, obtuse to subacute. Corolla-tube rather narrow, 1·5 × calyx, c. = lobes. Capsule erect, glab., broad-ovate, c. 2 × calyx.

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