Dracophyllum menziesii Hook.f.
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Dracophyllum menziesii Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 168 (1853)
Dracophyllum menziesii Hook.f.
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Hook.f.
Hook.f.
1853
168
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Dracophyllum menziesii Hook.f.
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Dracophyllum menziesii
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Dracophyllum menziesii Hook.f.
Low spreading to erect shrub up to 2 m. or more tall; branches us. several, robust; bark greyish; branchlets stout. Lvs crowded near tips of branchlets, patent to ± reflexed, rigid, very coriac.; sheath glab., ± 25 × 20 mm., gradually tapering into lamina 10-15-(20) × 1·5-2 cm.; margins serrulate to crenulate; apex gradually tapering to fine point. Panicle ± 7·5-12 cm. long, stout, drooping, on short stout stalk, arising below lvs; sts in whorls of 3, sts almost reduced to racemes; rhachis pubescent. Bracts short, broad, ovate, suddenly contracted to sharp point. Fls c. 8-9 mm. long on short curved pubescent pedicels. Sepals 1·5-2 mm. long, broad-ovate, subacute. Corolla-tube c. 6 mm. long, subcampanulate; lobes c. 2-3 mm. long, oblong, obtuse, reflexed. Anthers us. included. Capsule 5-7-valved, (4)-5-6 mm. long, depressed-globose.
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Dracophyllum menziesii Hook.f.
Dracophyllum menziesii Hook.f.
Dracophyllum menziesii Hook.f.
Dracophyllum menziesii Hook.f.
Dracophyllum menziesii Hook.f.
Dracophyllum menziesii Hook.f.
Dracophyllum menziesii Hook.f.
Dracophyllum menziesii Hook.f.
Dracophyllum menziesii Hook.f.
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typification
Type: New Zealand. Dusky Sound, 1791. A. Menzies s.n. (lecto: K!; isolecto: BM 577674!), designated by Oliver (1952).
Etymology
Named after Archibald Menzies (1754–1842), Scottish surgeon and naturalist.
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