Drapetes laxus (Cheeseman) Allan

Details

Name scientific

Drapetes laxus (Cheeseman) Allan, Fl. New Zealand 1, 288 (1961)

Preferred name

Kelleria laxa (Cheeseman) Heads

Taxonomy reference

Heads, M.J. 1990: A revision of the genera Kelleria and Drapetes (Thymelaeaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 3: 595–652.

Nomenclature

Authors

(Cheeseman) Allan

Original authors

Cheeseman

Combination authors

Allan

Publication place

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

Year published

1961

Publication page

288

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Drapetes dieffenbachii var. laxa Cheeseman

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Drapetes laxus

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Malvales

Family

Thymelaeaceae

Genus

Drapetes

Species

laxus

Descriptions

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

Drapetes laxus (Cheeseman) Allan

Description

Plant forming lax patches up to 30 cm. or more diam.; stems and branches prostrate and rooting, up to 4 mm. diam.; branchlets spreading to suberect, up to 5 cm. long, glabrate except at lf-bases. Lvs erecto-patent, densely imbricate, 4-5 × 1-1·5 mm., linear- to elliptic-oblong, rounded at apex, nearly flat, submembr.; venation us. evident, margins ciliate, apex penicillate. Fls 3-8 per head; scales 8, minute, distinct. Per. tube villous, 1·75-2 mm. long; lobes 1·5-1·75 mm. long, oblong. Ovary ovoid, villous at apex. Fr. ovoid, 2 mm. long.

Taxonomic concepts

Name

Cited name

Reference

Preferred name

Parent name

Drapetes laxus (Cheeseman) Allan

Drapetes laxus (Cheeseman) Allan

Allan, H.H. (1961)

Drapetes laxus (Cheeseman) Allan

Drapetes laxus (Cheeseman) Allan

Heads, M.J. (1990)

Kelleria laxa (Cheeseman) Heads

Collections

Determined name

Country

Geographic region

Indicative databased records

Drapetes laxus (Cheeseman) Allan

New Zealand

Metadata

Record id

80b3aa3f-7959-4a5e-96b3-83f6191cf6a4

Record class

scientific name

Record source

Names_Plants

Date added

13 March 2002

Date last updated

7 October 2005

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