Hebe evenosa (Petrie) Cockayne & Allan

Details

Name scientific

Hebe evenosa (Petrie) Cockayne & Allan, Trans. New Zealand Inst. 57: 29 (1926)

Preferred name

Veronica evenosa Petrie

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

Petrie

Authors

(Petrie) 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 evenosa Petrie

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Hebe evenosa

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Lamiales

Family

Plantaginaceae

Genus

Hebe

Species

evenosa

Descriptions

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

Hebe evenosa (Petrie) Cockayne & Allan

Description

Shrub to 2 m. tall with stout widely spreading main branches, freely subdivided below the lfy tips. Branchlets rather stout, bifariously to fully pubescent, length of internodes 2-3 × diam. Lvs subpatent, 15-20 × 6-8 mm., obovate-oblong, firm-textured, duller and with ∞ stomata on undersurface; lf-bud without sinus; lamina broad towards obtuse thickened tip, entire, glab. except for minute pubescence on margin. Infls lateral, simple, to 2.5-3 cm. long; peduncle short, hidden, pubescent. Fls crowded. Bracts c. = short pedicels, obtuse, ciliolate. Calyx-lobes c. 1·5 mm. long, broad, obtuse, ciliolate. Corolla white, tube c. 2 mm. long, lobes slightly longer, rounded. Capsule erect, c. 4 × 2.5 mm., obtuse, glab.

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