Hebe ligustrifolia A.Cunn.) Cockayne & Allan

Details

Name scientific

Hebe ligustrifolia A.Cunn.) Cockayne & Allan, Trans. New Zealand Inst. 57: 16 (1926)

Preferred name

Veronica ligustrifolia A.Cunn.

Taxonomy reference

Garnock-Jones, P.J. 2023: Veronica. In: Breitwieser, I. (ed.) Flora of New Zealand – Seed Plants. Fascicle 9. Manaaki Whenua Press, Lincoln.

Nomenclature

Combination authors

Cockayne & Allan

Original authors

A.Cunn.

Authors

A.Cunn.) Cockayne & Allan

Publication place

Cockayne, L.; Allan, H.H. 1926: The present taxonomic status of the New Zealand species of Hebe. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute 57: 11–47.

Year published

1926

Publication page

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Veronica ligustrifolia A.Cunn.

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Hebe ligustrifolia

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Lamiales

Family

Plantaginaceae

Genus

Hebe

Species

ligustrifolia

Descriptions

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

Hebe ligustrifolia A.Cunn.) Cockayne & Allan

Description

Laxly branched shrub to 1 m. tall. Branchlets greyish brown, finely pubescent, length of internodes c. 3 × diam. Lvs spreading, 2-5 cm. × 5-15 mm. (often wide range on one plant), ovate-oblong to narrow-lanceolate, subcoriac., rather light yellowish green; lf-bud without sinus; lamina subacute, entire, glab. except for minute pubescence at extreme base. Infls lateral, simple, slender, to 2 × lf-length, peduncle c. 1 cm. Fls rather openly arranged, pedicels 2-3 mm., mostly > narrow ciliolate bracts. Calyx-lobes c. 2 mm. long, narrow, acute, ciliolate. Corolla white, tube very short, c. 1 mm. long, lobes c. 2.5 mm. long, the broadest acute. Capsule c. 3 × 2.5 mm., glab., erect to spreading, < 2 × calyx.

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