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Dracophyllum oliveri Du Rietz

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Dracophyllum oliveri Du Rietz, Svensk Bot. Tidskr. 24: 374 (1930)
Dracophyllum oliveri Du Rietz

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Endemic
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New Zealand
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Du Rietz
Du Rietz
1930
374
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Dracophyllum oliveri Du Rietz
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Dracophyllum oliveri
Named for Dr R. W. B. Oliver (1883–1957), Director of the Dominion Museum in Wellington who completed two major publications on Dracophyllum.
Type: New Zealand. Mount Rochfort, 1800 feet [~548 m], 5 Feb. 1913. D. Petrie s.n. (holo: WELT 33022!; iso: WELT 33021!, WELT 33025!).

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oliveri

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Dracophyllum oliveri Du Rietz

Erect, up to c. 2 m. tall; branches with blackish bark; branchlets slender, ascending, becoming nude below, bark greyish. Lvs narrow-subulate; sheaths 5-8 × (2)-3-4 mm., abruptly narrowed to truncate subauricled shoulder. Lamina minutely pubescent, becoming glab., rigid, 4-5-(7) cm. × 1·5-2 mm., tapering gradually to subpungent apex; margins minutely pubescent. Fls in erect, often clustered, 5-10-fld racemes on short lateral branches. Bracts caducous; lower lflike up to 25 mm. long, subpersistent; upper c. 5 × 3 mm., broad-ovate, suddenly narrowed to subulate blunt apex. Sepals persistent, c. 6 mm. long, ovate-acuminate. Corolla-tube 3-4 mm. long; lobes spreading, subacute, ± reflexed. Capsule c. 5 mm. diam.

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Dracophyllum oliveri Du Rietz
Dracophyllum oliveri Du Rietz
Dracophyllum oliveri Du Rietz
Dracophyllum oliveri Du Rietz
Dracophyllum oliveri Du Rietz
Dracophyllum oliveri Du Rietz
Dracophyllum oliveri Du Rietz
Dracophyllum oliveri Du Rietz
Dracophyllum oliveri Du Rietz
Dracophyllum oliveri Du Rietz
Dracophyllum oliveri Du Rietz

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North-western

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typification
Type: New Zealand. Mount Rochfort, 1800 feet [~548 m], 5 Feb. 1913. D. Petrie s.n. (holo: WELT 33022!; iso: WELT 33021!, WELT 33025!).
Etymology
Named for Dr R. W. B. Oliver (1883–1957), Director of the Dominion Museum in Wellington who completed two major publications on Dracophyllum.

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1 January 2000
28 January 2021
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