Coprosma wallii Petrie

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Name scientific

Coprosma wallii Petrie in Cheeseman, Man. New Zealand Fl., ed. 2, 867 (1925)

Preferred name

Coprosma wallii Petrie

Taxonomy reference

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

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Authors

Petrie

Original authors

Petrie

Publication place

Cheeseman, T.F. 1925: Manual of the New Zealand Flora. Edition 2. Government Printer, Wellington.

Year published

1925

Publication page

867

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Coprosma wallii Petrie

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Coprosma wallii

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Gentianales

Family

Rubiaceae

Genus

Coprosma

Species

wallii

Associations

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Associated organism

Association source

is host of

Ileostylus micranthus (Hook.f.) Tiegh.

CHR (1 records from [Not available].)

is host of

Korthalsella clavata (Kirk) Cheeseman

CHR (6 records from [Not available].)

Descriptions

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

Coprosma wallii Petrie

Description

Robust shrub up to c. 2 m. tall; branches stout, divaricate; branchlets subtetragonous, stiff, coarsely pubescent. Lvs sts fascicled, on pubescent petioles c. 1 mm. long. Stipules triangular, acute to subacute, pubescent. Lamina coriac., glab., broad-ovate to suborbicular to broadly ovate-oblong, obtuse, subtruncate at base, 5-9 × 5-7 mm.; margins thickened. Midrib and principal secondary veins evident below. Fls solitary or 2-3 together on short branchlets. ♂ without calyx; corolla short, broadly campanulate, lobes slightly > tube, broad-ovate, acute. ♀ with funnelform corolla; lobes triangular, acute, much < tube. Drupe didymous, dark red, c.3 × 4·5 mm.

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

Coprosma wallii Petrie

Description

2n = 132

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Coprosma wallii Petrie