Montitega dealbata (R.Br.) C.M.Weiller

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Name scientific

Montitega dealbata (R.Br.) C.M.Weiller in Albrecht et al., Syst. Bot. 23: 328 (2010)

Preferred name

Montitega dealbata (R.Br.) C.M.Weiller

Taxonomy reference

Albrecht, D.E.; Owens, C.T.; Weiller, C.M.; Quinn, C.J. 2010: Generic concepts in Ericaceae: Styphelioideae - the Monotoca group. Australian Systematic Botany. Systematic Botany 23(5): 320–332.

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Indigenous, non-endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Albrecht, D.E.; Owens, C.T.; Weiller, C.M.; Quinn, C.J. (2010)

Nomenclature

Combination authors

C.M.Weiller

Original authors

R.Br.

Authors

(R.Br.) C.M.Weiller

Publication place

Albrecht, D.E.; Owens, C.T.; Weiller, C.M.; Quinn, C.J. 2010: Generic concepts in Ericaceae: Styphelioideae - the Monotoca group. Australian Systematic Botany. Systematic Botany 23(5): 320–332.

Year published

2010

Publication page

328

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Cyathodes dealbata R.Br.

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Montitega dealbata

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Ericales

Family

Ericaceae

Genus

Montitega

Species

dealbata

Synonyms

Descriptions

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

Cyathodes pumila Hook.f.

Description

Prostrate shrub forming dense patches up to c. 4 dm. diam; branches ∞, ascending at tips; branchlets ascending. Lvs close-set, imbricate. erect, coriac., subsessile, glab., paler below; 3-5 × 1-2 mm., narrow-oblong to narrow-elliptic, us. minutely apiculate; margins ± thickened towards base. Fls minute, solitary, axillary and/or terminal. bracts ∞, investing peduncle. Calyx-lobes broad-oblong, obtuse, ciliolate. Corolla-tube cylindric, much > calyx; lobes acute, densely hairy on upper surface. Style minutely 5-lobed. Fr. dark, c. 4-5 mm. diam., globose; locules us. 5.

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