Hebe brachysiphon Summerh.

Details

Name scientific

Hebe brachysiphon Summerh., Kew Bull. 1927: 397 (1927)

Preferred name

Veronica brachysiphon (Summerh.) Bean

Taxonomy reference

Garnock-Jones, P.J. 2023: Veronica. In: Breitwieser, I. (ed.) Flora of New Zealand – Seed Plants. Fascicle 9. Manaaki Whenua Press, Lincoln.

Linked name

Hebe brachysiphon Summerh.

Nomenclature

Original authors

Summerh.

Authors

Summerh.

Publication place

Summerhayes, V.S. 1927: The Type of Veronica Traversii. Kew Bulletin 1927: 395–398.

Year published

1927

Publication page

397

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Hebe brachysiphon Summerh.

Based on

Veronica traversii Hook.f.

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Hebe brachysiphon

Etymology

The epithet brachysiphon means short tube, a reference to the corolla tube in relation to that of V. traversii, with which it had been confused.

Typification

Lectotype (designated by Bayly & Kellow 2004): from Sir J. D. Hooker’s garden, 26 June 1893, K, flowering pieces on top left and bottom right only (these are mounted on the same sheet as pieces collected in March 1893, and another specimen – comprising two pieces – collected at Edinburgh Botanical Gardens)

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Lamiales

Family

Plantaginaceae

Genus

Hebe

Species

brachysiphon

Descriptions

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

Hebe brachysiphon Summerh.

Description

Rounded bushy shrub to 1 m. tall. Branchlets very finely pubescent, length of internodes 1-3 × diam. Lvs erecto-patent to occ. deflexed, 1·5-2.5 cm. × 4-6 mm., elliptic to lanceolate, rather light green, smooth above, dull with ∞ stomata beneath; lf-bud with long narrow sinus, the lamina cuneately narrowed into short winged petiole; lamina acute, entire, glab. except for fine pubescence on slightly bevelled margin. Infls lateral, mostly simple but a few bi- or tri-partite on many plants, c. 2-4 cm. long; peduncle < adjacent lvs, finely pubescent. Bracts narrow, ciliolate, lowest acute, upper ones obtuse, mostly > pedicels which decrease from c. 2.5 mm. at base of raceme to < 1 mm. near its tip. Calyx-lobes c. 1·5 mm. long, obtuse to subacute in same fl., ciliolate. Corolla white, tube c. 3 mm. long, rather broad, lobes c. = tube. Capsule erect, c. 4 × 3 mm., glab.

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