Hectorella caespitosa Hook.f.
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Hectorella caespitosa Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 27 (1864)
Hectorella caespitosa Hook.f.
Nomenclature
Hook.f.
Hook.f.
1864
27
ICN
Hectorella caespitosa Hook.f.
species
Hectorella caespitosa
Classification
Descriptions
Hectorella caespitosa Hook.f.
Perennial dwarf shrub forming cushion 2-4 cm. deep. Branches fleshy, close-set, rooted below, ascending at tips, ending in flat lfy rosettes 10-15 mm. across. Lvs simple, exstipulate, not opp. but in close spiral, sessile, slightly sheathing at base, 5-8 mm. long, subulate, glab., almost fleshy, entire. Many fls produced simultaneously in one rosette, each terminal on a short axillary lateral bearing two stem lvs. Fls white, 7-8 mm. diam.; "prophylls" 2 mm. long, very broadly oblong with apiculus; per. segs united at very base, spathulate, apiculate; stamens with broad filaments reaching to top of per.; style simple, bearing two hastate stigma lobes that reach halfway up per.; ovary ovoid, 2 mm. long, style 1·3 mm., ovules 5. Fr. projecting beyond the persistent prophylls, globose, c. 3 mm. diam., surmounted by apiculus formed from persistent and hardened style base (stigma lobes often long-lasting but not hardened); pericarp smooth, almost fleshy, its substance slightly mucilaginous, without clearly defined valves, ind., the seeds escaping only as the wall disintegrates. Seeds us. < 5, c. 1·5 mm. diam., slightly flattened but rounded, without keel, black and shining.
Hectorella caespitosa Hook.f.
2n = 96
2n = 96
Taxonomic concepts
Hectorella caespitosa Hook.f.
Hectorella caespitosa Hook.f.
Hectorella caespitosa Hook.f.
Hectorella caespitosa Hook.f.
Hectorella caespitosa Hook.f.
Hectorella caespitosa Hook.f.
Hectorella elongata Buchanan
Hectorella caespitosa Hook.f.
Lyallia caespitosa (Hook.f.) B.L.Nyananyo & V.H.Heywood
Hectorella caespitosa Hook.f.
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1 January 2000
12 April 2007