Pygmea Hook.f.
Details
Pygmea Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 217 (1864)
Nomenclature
Hook.f.
Hook.f.
1864
217
illegitimate
ICN
Pygmea Hook.f.
genus
Pygmea
Classification
Subordinates
Descriptions
Pygmea Hook.f.
Fls solitary, each subtended by a pair of connate bracts, sessile or sub-sessile in lf-axils near tips of branches. Calyx 5-(6)-lobed. Corolla small, salverform, shortly lobed, or larger, broadly funnelform and deeply lobed; lobes 5-(6). Stamens 2, inserted near throat of corolla, filaments, short, anthers large. Capsule with septum across narrowest diam., deeply 2-lobed, laterally compressed and broadest at tip, turgid below, flattened on anterior and posterior faces, splitting loculicidally and septicidally into 4 valves, included in calyx. Seeds us. many, not strongly flattened. Small densely pulvinate perennial herbs or prostrate rooting shrubs; lvs opp., sessile, shortly connate at base, closely quadrifariously or irregularly imbricate, entire, ± ciliate or hairy. Genus of a few spp. endemic to N.Z. Type sp. (selected by W. R. B. Oliver in Rec. Dom. Mus., Wellington 1, 1944, 231):
Taxonomic concepts
Collections
Notes
typification
Type taxon: Pygmaea ciliolata Hook.f. (designated for Pygmaea Hook.f. by Oliver 1944)
Metadata
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scientific name
Names_Plants
13 March 2002
26 August 2022