Epilobium pernitens Cockayne & Allan

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Name scientific

Epilobium pernitens Cockayne & Allan, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 56: 23 (1926)

Preferred name

Epilobium pernitens Cockayne & Allan

Taxonomy reference

Raven, P.H.; Raven, T. E. 1976: The Genus Epilobium (Onagraceae) in Australasia: a Systematic and Evolutionary Study. New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Bulletin 216: 1–321.

Linked name

Epilobium pernitens Cockayne & Allan

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Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Authors

Cockayne & Allan

Original authors

Cockayne & Allan

Publication place

Cockayne, L.; Allan, H.H. 1926: Notes on New Zealand floristic botany, including descriptions of new species, & c. (No. 4). Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 56: 21–33.

Year published

1926

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Epilobium pernitens Cockayne & Allan

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Epilobium pernitens

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Myrtales

Family

Onagraceae

Genus

Epilobium

Species

pernitens

Descriptions

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

Epilobium pernitens Cockayne & Allan

Description

Branching herb forming patches up to ± 10 cm. diam. Lvs us. crowded, on petioles up to ± 3 mm. long; lamina 3-5-(7) mm. long, glossy and ± purple above, concavo-convex, ± fleshy, glab.; margins entire or nearly so, ± recurved. Fls 10-16 mm. or slightly more diam.; calyx-lobes oblong-lanceolate, acute, ± 4 mm. long; petals ± 8 mm. long, emarginate, white, with ± 10 purple lines, broad-ovate. Capsules ± 30 mm. long, glab., slender; peduncles ± 50-60 mm. long, slender, brownish red. Seeds smooth or very minutely papillose.

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

Epilobium pernitens Cockayne & Allan

Description

n = 18

Description

2n = 36

Webb, C.J.; Sykes, W.R.; Garnock-Jones, P.J. 1988: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. IV. Naturalised Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms, Dicotyledons. Botany Division DSIR, Christchurch.

Epilobium pernitens Cockayne & Allan

Description

Compact, creeping herb forming dense patches up to 0.5 m across. Stems light brown, glabrous or very sparsely strigillose near margins of petioles, rooting at nodes. Lamina of lf with a conspicuous median depression, broadly elliptic to orbicular, 1.5-6 × 1.5-5 mm. Floral tube (1.4)-1.6-2.5 mm deep, glabrous. Petals white, (4)-5-10.7 × 3-7.5 mm. Capsule glabrous or nearly so, 1.5-3.8 cm long; fruiting pedicel (2)-3-6.8 cm long.

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Epilobium pernitens Cockayne & Allan

Epilobium pernitens Cockayne & Allan

Allan, H.H. (1961)

Epilobium pernitens Cockayne & Allan

Epilobium pernitens Cockayne & Allan

Dawson, M.I. (2008)

Epilobium L.

Epilobium pernitens Cockayne & Allan

Epilobium pernitens Cockayne & Allan

de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R. et al. (2013)

Epilobium pernitens Cockayne & Allan

Epilobium pernitens Cockayne & Allan

de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R. et al. (2018)

Epilobium pernitens Cockayne & Allan

Epilobium pernitens Cockayne & Allan

Raven, P.H.; Raven, T. E. (1976)

Epilobium pernitens Cockayne & Allan

Epilobium pernitens Cockayne & Allan

Webb, C.J.; Sykes, W.R.; Garnock-Jones, P.J. (1988)

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Epilobium pernitens Cockayne & Allan

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Metadata

Record id

d7ca9803-d524-4744-b457-30ab3a2c2a58

Record class

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Record source

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Date added

1 January 2000

Date last updated

15 May 2008

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