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Veronica strictissima (Kirk) Garn.-Jones

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Veronica strictissima (Kirk) Garn.-Jones in Garnock-Jones et al., Taxon 56: 579 (2007)
Veronica strictissima (Kirk) Garn.-Jones

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Endemic
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New Zealand
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Garn.-Jones
Kirk
(Kirk) Garn.-Jones
2007
579
ICN
species
Veronica strictissima
The epithet strictissima is from the superlative form of strictus, meaning the most straight or tight, probably a reference to the inflorescences (Bayly & Kellow 2006).

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strictissima

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Laxly branched shrub to 2 m. tall. Branchlets ± stiff, glab. or most minutely bifariously pubescent, often reddish, length of internodes us. several × diam. Lvs erect to spreading, 2-4·5 cm. × 6-8 mm., narrow-oblong, subcoriac., rather light green, not shining, drying light brown; lf-bud without sinus; lamina narrowing ± abruptly to tip, entire, glab., but margin minutely pubescent. Infls lateral, simple, c. 2 × lf-length. Bracts very small, ciliolate, < pedicels. Calyx-lobes c. 1·5 mm. long, obtuse with membr. ciliolate border. Corolla white, tube wide, = or very little > calyx, lobes > tube, rounded. Capsule erect, rather acute, us. glab., warm brown when mature, to 3 × calyx-lobes.

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Hebe leiophylla var. strictissima (Kirk) Cockayne & Allan
Veronica strictissima (Kirk) Garn.-Jones
Hebe leiophylla var. strictissima (Kirk) Cockayne & Allan
Veronica strictissima (Kirk) Garn.-Jones
Hebe strictissima (Kirk) L.B.Moore
Veronica strictissima (Kirk) Garn.-Jones
Hebe strictissima (Kirk) L.B.Moore
Veronica strictissima (Kirk) Garn.-Jones
Veronica leiophylla var. strictissima (Kirk) Cockayne
Veronica strictissima (Kirk) Garn.-Jones
Veronica leiophylla var. strictissima (Kirk) Cockayne
Veronica strictissima (Kirk) Garn.-Jones
Veronica parviflora var. strictissima Kirk
Veronica strictissima (Kirk) Garn.-Jones
Veronica strictissima (Kirk) Garn.-Jones
Veronica strictissima (Kirk) Garn.-Jones
Veronica strictissima (Kirk) Garn.-Jones
Veronica strictissima (Kirk) Garn.-Jones
Veronica strictissima (Kirk) Garn.-Jones
Veronica strictissima (Kirk) Garn.-Jones
Veronica strictissima (Kirk) Garn.-Jones
Veronica strictissima (T.Kirk) Garn.-Jones
Veronica strictissima (Kirk) Garn.-Jones

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Veronica strictissima (Kirk) Garn.-Jones
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District

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Etymology
The epithet strictissima is from the superlative form of strictus, meaning the most straight or tight, probably a reference to the inflorescences (Bayly & Kellow 2006).

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28 September 2010
2 January 2023
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