Pygmea pulvinaris Hook.f.
Details
Pygmea pulvinaris Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 217 (1864)
Nomenclature
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Hook.f.
1864
217
ICN
Pygmea pulvinaris Hook.f.
species
Pygmea pulvinaris
Classification
Descriptions
Pygmea pulvinaris Hook.f.
Perennial herb from stout woody stock; stems woody, rooting, giving off ∞ slender erect branches us. tightly compacted into dense, hoary, grey-green cushion 2-4 cm. high and up to 10 cm. or more diam., sts laxer and forming small patch; branches again much branched towards tips, 3-5 mm. diam. including lvs. Lvs closely irregularly imbricate, us. ± loosely spreading, linear-oblong to linear-spathulate, 2.5-4 × ± 1 mm., obtuse to subacute; margins and upper part of inner surface sparsely hispid with long, coarse, stiff, white hairs, outer surface sparsely hispid in upper part or glab. except for tuft at tip. Bracts 3-4 mm. long, linear, very similar to calyx-lobes. Calyx 3-4 mm. long, deeply divided into 5-(6) linear lobes 2.5-3·5 mm. long; lobes hispid on margins and outer surface especially towards tip. Corolla white, 5-6-(8) mm. long, salverform; tube ± ═ or much > calyx; lobes 5-6, 1·5-2.5 mm. long, broadly obovate-oblong, rounded to subacute. Capsule c. 2.5-3 mm. long, hairy at apex at least when young.
Taxonomic concepts
Pygmea pulvinaris Hook.f.
Pygmea pulvinaris Hook.f.
Pygmea pulvinaris Hook.f.
Pygmea pulvinaris Hook.f.
Pygmea pulvinaris Hook.f.
Pygmea pulvinaris Hook.f.
Notes
Etymology
The epithet pulvinaris, from Latin pulvinus (a cushion), is a reference to its habit.
typification
Holoype: Prov. Canterbury, summit of Mt Torlesse, Haast s.n., 1860–1, No. 452, K
Metadata
80d01311-7b3c-42a1-8c99-c6a8e88a9724
scientific name
Names_Plants
13 March 2002
6 January 2023