Ourisia spathulata Arroyo
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Ourisia spathulata Arroyo, New Zealand J. Bot. 22: 451 (1984)
Ourisia spathulata Arroyo
Nomenclature
Arroyo
Arroyo
1984
451
ICN
Ourisia spathulata Arroyo
species
Ourisia spathulata
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Ourisia spathulata Arroyo
Creeping, prostrate, rhizomatous herb with clearly evident glabrous, reddish petioles and internodes, forming tufts up to 8 cm across; leaves widely separated on the stems, pale green, softly textured, on long, flattened petioles, 2.5-4 (3.0) cm long, 0.5-1.5 (1.0) cm wide, expanding gradually into obtuse spathulate blades 1.2-2.3 (1.5) cm long and wide, the margins with 5-9 symmetric shallow crenulations with poorly evident hydathodes; upper leaf surface clothed in soft, adpressed, mixed glandular and eglandular multicellular hairs, lower surface with mostly gland-tipped pubescence evenly distributed along the veins and intervein areas, the 5-6 major veins not obscured by the pubescence. Inflorescence very slender and flexuous, 8.0-11.0 (10.0) cm long in flower, evenly clad in long, multicellular glandular pubescence to 1 mm long; bracts (2-) 3-4 (-5) pairs, obovate-spathulate, somewhat concave, 0.7-1.3 (1.0) cm long and wide, obtuse, entire to very broadly 3-7-crenulate, with long, weak, glandular pubescence only on the lower surface. Flowers 0-2 per node, the lower most pair of bracts frequently sterile; pedicels brownish-black, 1.3-1.5 (1.4) cm long in flower, elongating considerably to 2-2.5 (2.4) cm in fruit, glandular-pubescent, calyx strongly bilabiate, obtriangular to oblong, streaked with purple-blue lines abaxially, pubescence on the outside only, 0.6-0.9 (0.7) cm long, 0.6-0.9 (0.8) cm wide, the lobes oblong, 1.5-2.5 (2.1) mm wide, obtuse, the 2 anterior lobes united for ½ to 2/3 the entire length, the 3 posterior lobes united for greater than 2/3 the entire length, these however completely divided from the anterior lobes; corolla to 1.5 cm wide, entirely glabrous, white except for the yellow throat, tube 2/3 the length of the calyx; corolla lobes obovate-oblong, 0.8-1.1 (1.1) cm long, 0.7-0.8 (0.7) cm wide, obtuse to emarginate, not angular, somewhat spreading, longitudinal axis of the corolla hardly exceeding the transverse axis; capsule glabrous, calyx persistent at maturity, seeds minute, brown.
Folia remota in caulibus prostratis; laminae spathulatae, obtusae, supra et subtus pubescentia glandulifera et eglandulifera multicellulosa vestitae, basim sensim petiolum attenuatae; calyx bilabiatus, lobis oblongis, obtusis, extus pubescentia glandulifera vestitis, purpureostriatis; 2 lobi anteriores calycis conjuncti 1/2-2/3; 3 lobi posteriores calycis conjuncti plus quam 2/3; corolla omnino glabra, alba praeter faucem subtus flavam, lobis obovatq-oblongis, obtusis, emarginatis, non angulatis, patulis; axis corollae longitudinalis transversalisque quasi aequalis.
Ourisia spathulata Arroyo
2n = 48
Taxonomic concepts
Ourisia spathulata Arroyo
Ourisia spathulata Arroyo
Ourisia spathulata Arroyo
Ourisia spathulata Arroyo
Ourisia spathulata Arroyo
Ourisia spathulata Arroyo
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1 January 2000
19 September 2006