Muehlenbeckia axillaris (Hook.f.) Endl.

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Name scientific

Muehlenbeckia axillaris (Hook.f.) Endl., Gen. Pl. [Endlicher] Suppl. 4(2): 51 (1848)

Preferred name

Muehlenbeckia axillaris (Hook.f.) Endl.

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

Indigenous, non-endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Authors

(Hook.f.) Endl.

Original authors

Hook.f.

Combination authors

Endl.

Publication place

Endlicher, S.F.L. 1836-1841: Genera Plantarum secundum ordines naturales disposita.

Year published

1848

Publication page

Suppl. 4(2): 51

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Polygonum axilaris Hook.f.

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Muehlenbeckia axillaris

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Caryophyllales

Family

Polygonaceae

Genus

Muehlenbeckia

Species

axillaris

Vernacular names

Language of use: English

Language of use: Māori

Pōhuehue

Synonyms

Descriptions

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

Muehlenbeckia axillaris (Hook.f.) Walp.

Description

Prostrate or occ. straggling shrub forming dense to open patches up to 1 m. or more across; stems and branches subterranean or creeping on surface, rooting at nodes where substratum favourable; branchlets slender, decumbent, ± pubescent. Lvs on slender petioles (1)-2-3-(5) mm. long; ochreae 2-3 mm. long, obliquely truncate. Lamina (2)-3-5-(10) mm. long or in diam., coriac., broad- to ovate-oblong to suborbicular, sts retuse; dark green above, paler below. Fls ± 4 mm. diam., solitary or paired (rarely up to 5 in a fascicle), axillary on slender pedicels. Tepals united to halfway, lobes narrow-triangular. ♀ with fimbriate stigmas; tepals white and succulent or dry in fr. (both forms may occur on same plant.) Fr. ± 3 × 1·75 mm., trigonous, somewhat glossy, black.

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