Ourisia caespitosa Hook.f.

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Name scientific

Ourisia caespitosa Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 198 (1853)

Preferred name

Ourisia caespitosa Hook.f.

Taxonomy reference

Arroyo, M.T.K. 1984: New species and combinations in Ourisia (Scrophulariaceae) in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 22: 447–463.

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Authors

Hook.f.

Original authors

Hook.f.

Publication place

Hooker, J.D. 1852–1853 ("1853"): The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H.M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror in the Years 1839–1843, under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross. II. Flora Novae-Zelandiae. Part I. Flowering plants. Lovell Reeve, London.

Year published

1853

Publication page

198

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Ourisia caespitosa Hook.f.

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Ourisia caespitosa

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Lamiales

Family

Plantaginaceae

Genus

Ourisia

Species

caespitosa

Subordinates

Vernacular names

Language of use: English

Creeping mountain fox glove

Synonyms

Descriptions

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

Ourisia caespitosa Hook.f.

Description

Stem prostrate and rooting at nodes, much and often closely branched, c. 2 mm. diam., glab. or with some retrorse hairs. Lvs us. crowded, often distichously arranged; lamina coriac. to almost fleshy, broad- to narrow-spathulate to almost oblong, with 0-1-2-(3) notches on each side, glab., margins slightly thickened or revolute; petiole < lamina, the wide membr. wing fringed with long hairs. Peduncle erect, up to 10 cm. tall, glab. Bracts in 1-3-(4) pairs, narrow, subentire or notched. Pedicels > fls glab. Calyx split anteriorally almost to base, the other clefts us. shorter; lobes broad, obtuse to retuse, entire, glab. Corolla glab. outside.

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

Ourisia caespitosa Hook.f. var. caespitosa

Description

Lvs c. 10 × 5 mm., most or all broadly spathulate and notched, creeping stem us. glab. Bracts us. notched. Fls mostly in pairs. Calyx-lobes c. 5 mm. long, broad to top. Corolla c. 2 cm. diam., lobes broad.

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

Ourisia caespitosa var. gracilis Hook.f.

Description

Lvs up to 6 × 3 mm., most or all oval to spathulate-oblong and entire, creeping stem us. with some retrorse hairs. Bracts narrow, entire. Fls often solitary, sts one above the other, rarely two from any one pair of bracts. Calyx-lobes us. narrowed towards top. Corolla c. 1·5 cm. diam., lobes narrow.

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