Kelleria laxa (Cheeseman) Heads

Details

Name scientific

Kelleria laxa (Cheeseman) Heads in George, Fl. Austral. 18, 323 (1990)

Preferred name

Kelleria laxa (Cheeseman) Heads

Taxonomy reference

Heads, M.J. 1990: A revision of the genera Kelleria and Drapetes (Thymelaeaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 3: 595–652.

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Marks, C.; Walsh, N. (2014)

Nomenclature

Authors

(Cheeseman) Heads

Original authors

Cheeseman

Combination authors

Heads

Publication place

George, A.S. 1990: (Ed.) Flora of Australia. 18, Podostemaceae to Combretaceae. AGPS, Canberra.

Year published

1990

Publication page

323

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Drapetes dieffenbachii var. laxa Cheeseman

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Kelleria laxa

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Malvales

Family

Thymelaeaceae

Genus

Kelleria

Species

laxa

Synonyms

Descriptions

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

Drapetes laxus (Cheeseman) Allan

Description

Plant forming lax patches up to 30 cm. or more diam.; stems and branches prostrate and rooting, up to 4 mm. diam.; branchlets spreading to suberect, up to 5 cm. long, glabrate except at lf-bases. Lvs erecto-patent, densely imbricate, 4-5 × 1-1·5 mm., linear- to elliptic-oblong, rounded at apex, nearly flat, submembr.; venation us. evident, margins ciliate, apex penicillate. Fls 3-8 per head; scales 8, minute, distinct. Per. tube villous, 1·75-2 mm. long; lobes 1·5-1·75 mm. long, oblong. Ovary ovoid, villous at apex. Fr. ovoid, 2 mm. long.

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