Veronica bishopiana Petrie
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Veronica bishopiana Petrie, Trans. New Zealand Inst. 56: 15 (1926)
Veronica bishopiana Petrie
Nomenclature
Petrie
Petrie
1926
15
V. ×bishopiana
ICN
Veronica bishopiana Petrie
species
Veronica bishopiana
Classification
Hybridisation
Veronica obtusata Cheeseman × Veronica stricta Banks & Sol. ex Benth. var. stricta
Descriptions
Low spreading shrub up to 1 m tall but usually much less. Branches widely angled, spreading, often ascending at tips and then rooting from nodes. Old stems grey-black; branchlets maroonblack, drying black, minutely puberulent when young; internodes 1—11 × stem diameter. Leaf bud without sinus, dark maroon in colour. Leaves lanceolate- elliptic (20-)40-90 × (8—)13—18(—22) mm, maroon-green or dark-green; glabrous except for sparse minute eglandular hairs on the midrib and lamina; apex acute or acuminate, acumen (2-)6— 10 mm; base cuneate; margin entire, greenish-maroon or maroon. Inflorescences lateral, racemose, 5—7(—11) cm long; flowers crowded, shortly pedicellate, tightly spiralled and drooping toward raceme apex. Peduncle and rachis maroon-black, covered in sparse white strigose, eglandular hairs; peduncle 4— 9 cm long. Bracts linear-elliptic, acute, ciliolate, usually equal or slightly longer than pedicels. Pedicels spreading, sparsely covered in white strigose hairs, 2-4 mm long. Flowers faintly sweetscented. Calyx lobes ovate, subacute, overlapping at edges 1.5—3 mm long; glabrous except for basal covering of sparse white eglandular hairs; margin more or less alternating glandular-eglandular ciliolate. Corolla white tinged purple, fading to white after anthesis; tube 2-4 mm long, narrow, inner surface puberulent; lobes suberect, ovate to lanceolate, acute, 2-4 × 2-3 mm. Anthers purple, acute, 2.5 mm long; filaments purple, fading white, 6-8 mm long, curving outwards after dehiscence. Nectarial disk glabrous, fleshy, maroon-green. Style purple, glabrous, 6—8 mm long; stigma capitate. Ovary cylindrical, minutely puberulent. Capsule ovate, acute, dark maroon-brown, 3-4.5 × 2.5-4 mm, apex minutely puberulent, septicidal to base. Seeds honeybrown, circular, smooth with conspicuous marginal wing, 0.75-1 mm diameter. Chromosome number 2n = 40 (CHR 462362, slide no. 21928). FL Mar- Aug, however sporadic flowering may be noted at any time of the year.
Taxonomic concepts
Hebe aff. bishopiana (AK 202263; Hikurangi Swamp)
Hebe aff. bishopiana (AK 202263; Hikurangi Swamp)
Hebe aff. bishopiana (AK 202263; Hikurangi Swamp)
Hebe aff. bishopiana (AK 202263; Hikurangi Swamp)
Veronica bishopiana Petrie
Hebe bishopiana (Petrie) Hatch
Hebe bishopiana (Petrie) Hatch
Hebe bishopiana (Petrie) Hatch
Hebe bishopiana (Petrie) Hatch
Hebe bishopiana (Petrie) Hatch
Hebe bishopiana (Petrie) Hatch
Hebe bishopiana (Petrie) Hatch
Veronica bishopiana Petrie
Veronica bishopiana Petrie
Veronica ×bishopiana Petrie
Veronica bishopiana Petrie
Veronica bishopiana Petrie
Veronica bishopiana Petrie
Veronica bishopiana Petrie
Veronica bishopiana Petrie
Veronica bishopiana Petrie
Veronica bishopiana Petrie
Veronica bishopiana Petrie
Veronica bishopiana Petrie
Veronica bishopiana Petrie
Veronica bishopiana Petrie
Veronica bishopiana Petrie
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Notes
editorial
Veronica xbishopiana Petrie 1926, was transferred by Hatch in 1966 to the genus Hebe as H. xbishopiana. De Lange 1996 supports the suggestion made by Hatch 1966 that this taxon may not be a natural hybrid between V. obtusata and V. stricta var. stricta, but a distinct species.
typification
Lectotype (designated by L.B.Moore, in Allan 1961): hill at Huia near Manukau Heads, J. J. Bishop, H. Carse, E. Jenkins, April 1924, WELT 5329
Etymology
V. bishopiana was named after John J. Bishop (1865–1933) of Titirangi, who collected and cultivated plants.
Metadata
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13 March 2002
2 January 2023