Metrosideros colensoi var. pendens (Colenso) Kirk

Details

Name scientific

Metrosideros colensoi var. pendens (Colenso) Kirk, Stud. Fl. New Zealand 162 (1899)

Preferred name

Metrosideros colensoi Hook.f.

Nomenclature

Authors

(Colenso) Kirk

Original authors

Colenso

Combination authors

Kirk

Publication place

Kirk,T. 1899: The Students' Flora of New Zealand and the Outlying Islands. Government Printer, Wellington, N.Z.

Year published

1899

Publication page

162

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Metrosideros pendens Colenso

Taxonomic rank

var.

Canonical form

Metrosideros colensoi var. pendens

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Myrtales

Family

Myrtaceae

Genus

Metrosideros

Species

colensoi

Descriptions

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

Metrosideros colensoi var. pendens (Colenso) Kirk

Description

Tall liane, parts densely pilose-pubescent when young, hairs brownish; branchlets very slender, drooping, up to c. 5 dm. long; lvs ± 15-20 × 5-10 mm., indumentum becoming sparser in age; fls white or faintly pink-tinged; sepals acuminate, recurved, > petals; receptacle much exceeding adnate ovary.

Taxonomic concepts

Name

Cited name

Reference

Preferred name

Parent name

Metrosideros colensoi var. pendens (Colenso) Kirk

Metrosideros colensoi var. pendens (Colenso) Kirk

Allan, H.H. (1961)

Metadata

Record id

a0342530-f779-4dec-b13d-7bf726230d61

Record class

scientific name

Record source

Names_Plants

Date added

1 January 2000

Date last updated

30 April 2008

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