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Veronica glaucophylla Cockayne

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Veronica glaucophylla Cockayne, Trans. New Zealand Inst. 31: 422 (1899)
Veronica glaucophylla Cockayne

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Endemic
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New Zealand
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Cockayne
Cockayne
1899
422
ICN
Veronica glaucophylla Cockayne
species
Veronica glaucophylla
The epithet means glaucous leaved.
Neotype (first designated by Cockayne 1929, then more precisely by Moore, in Allan 1961): cultivated plant, originally from Craigieburn Mts, L. Cockayne No. 8037, 11 Jan 1902, AK 7970. Isoneotypes: WELT 47659, WELT 47658, CHR 331797

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glaucophylla

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Bushy shrub to 1 m. tall. Branchlets rather slender, very finely, us. bifariously, pubescent, length of internodes several × diam., older stems rather smooth and grey. Lvs patent, 13-16 × 5-6 mm., lanceolate, glaucous, drying darkish brown but not black, stomata ∞ on both surfaces; lf-bud without sinus; lamina narrowed gradually to subacute to acute tip, entire, glab. except for microscopic pubescence on ± bevelled margin. Infls lateral, simple, 2-3 × lf-length; peduncle short, finely pubescent. Bracts < 1 mm. long, ciliolate, < pedicels. Calyx-lobes 1-1·5 mm. long, broad, obtuse, ciliolate on pale membr. border. Corolla white, tube barely = calyx, hairy in the throat, lobes > tube, c. 2.5 mm. long, rounded, spreading. Style and ovary with fine sparse pubescence. Capsule to 5 × 4 mm., narrowly to broadly ovate, subacute, pubescent, > 2 × calyx.

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Hebe glaucophylla (Cockayne) Cockayne
Veronica glaucophylla Cockayne
Hebe glaucophylla (Cockayne) Cockayne
Veronica glaucophylla Cockayne
Veronica glaucophylla Cockayne
Veronica glaucophylla Cockayne
Veronica glaucophylla Cockayne
Veronica glaucophylla Cockayne
Veronica glaucophylla Cockayne
Veronica glaucophylla Cockayne
Veronica glaucophylla Cockayne
Veronica glaucophylla Cockayne
Veronica glaucophylla Cockayne
Veronica traversii var. fallax Cheeseman
Veronica glaucophylla Cockayne
Veronica traversii var. fallax Cheeseman
Veronica glaucophylla Cockayne

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New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Veronica glaucophylla Cockayne
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Veronica glaucophylla Cockayne
New Zealand
Veronica glaucophylla Cockayne
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Veronica glaucophylla Cockayne
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
Veronica glaucophylla Cockayne
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Veronica glaucophylla Cockayne
New Zealand
Wellington Land District

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typification
Neotype (first designated by Cockayne 1929, then more precisely by Moore, in Allan 1961): cultivated plant, originally from Craigieburn Mts, L. Cockayne No. 8037, 11 Jan 1902, AK 7970. Isoneotypes: WELT 47659, WELT 47658, CHR 331797
Etymology
The epithet means glaucous leaved.

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17 September 2002
1 December 2022
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