Acrothamnus colensoi (Hook.f.) Quinn

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Name scientific

Acrothamnus colensoi (Hook.f.) Quinn, Austral. Syst. Bot. 18: 452 (2005)

Preferred name

Acrothamnus colensoi (Hook.f.) Quinn

Taxonomy reference

Quinn, C. J.; Brown, E. A.; Heslewood, M. M.; Crayn, D. M. 2005: Generic concepts in Styphelieae (Ericaceae): the Cyathodes group. Australian Systematic Botany 18: 439–454.

Linked name

Acrothamnus colensoi (Hook.f.) Quinn

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Authors

(Hook.f.) Quinn

Original authors

Hook.f.

Combination authors

Quinn

Publication place

Quinn, C. J.; Brown, E. A.; Heslewood, M. M.; Crayn, D. M. 2005: Generic concepts in Styphelieae (Ericaceae): the Cyathodes group. Australian Systematic Botany 18: 439–454.

Year published

2005

Publication page

452

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Leucopogon colensoi Hook.f.

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Acrothamnus colensoi

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Ericales

Family

Ericaceae

Genus

Acrothamnus

Species

colensoi

Synonyms

Descriptions

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

Cyathodes colensoi (Hook.f.) Hook.f.

Description

Rather stout prostrate to decumbent shrub forming dense to rather lax patches up to c. 2 m. diam., branchlets erect to ascending. Lvs sessile or subsessile, glab., erect or ascending, becoming patent, glaucous below, with 5-3 distinct nerves below, 5-9 × 1-2-(3) mm., narrow-oblong, concavo-convex; margins thickened, ± recurved, ciliolate; apex obtuse, us. apiculate to mucronulate. Infl. of (2)-3-5-fld short, stout, terminal racemes. Bracts 2-3, broad-ovate, c. 2.5 mm. long, obtuse, ciliolate. Fls up to c. 7 mm. long; calyx-lobes obtuse, ciliolate, c. 4 mm. long. elliptic-oblong; corolla-tube 4-5 mm. long hairy on upper part; corolla-lobes ± 3 mm. long, densely hairy on upper surface. Fr. white to pink to red to dark crimson, globose, 4-5 mm. diam.; locules 5.

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