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Hebe ochracea Ashwin

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Ashwin
Ashwin
1961
936
ICN
Hebe ochracea Ashwin
species
Hebe ochracea
The epithet ochracea is a reference to the yellowish to brownish colour of the leafy stems.
Holotype: Cobb Valley, N. W. Nelson, F. G. Gibbs, CHR 97077. Isotype: AK 8243 [according to Ashwin (in Allan 1961), although details on labels differ slightly]

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ochracea

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Hebe ochracea Ashwin

Rather rigid, spreading, flat-topped or rounded shrub 15-30 cm. high or more; stems stout, branches mostly arching and branched only on upper side. Ultimate branchlets ∞ and close-set, 1·5-2 mm. diam., slightly tetragonous, olive-green below and ochre-coloured at tips, us. glossy; internodes 1·5-2-(2.5) mm. long, partly exposed; nodal joint obscure except in older stems. Lvs 1-(1·5) mm. long, connate up to c. ⅓length, ± deltoid, thick, strongly concavo-convex, appressed or slightly spreading, keeled and projecting on back, narrowed to ± keeled, subacute or obtuse, convex, incurved tip. Spikes up to c. 10-fld. Bracts c. 1·5 mm. long, ovate, keeled and ± subacute or obtuse. Calyx 2-2.5 mm. long, anterior lobes fused into a single obtuse or slightly emarginate ovate-oblong seg., sts shortly secondarily split. Corolla-tube = or > calyx, as broad as long. Capsule 3-3·5 mm. long, oval or narrow-oval, obtuse or subacute, > calyx.

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Hebe ochracea Ashwin
Hebe ochracea Ashwin
Hebe ochracea Ashwin
Hebe ochracea Ashwin
Hebe ochracea Ashwin
Hebe ochracea Ashwin
Hebe ochracea Ashwin
Hebe ochracea Ashwin
Hebe ochracea Ashwin
Hebe ochracea Ashwin
Hebe ochracea Ashwin
Hebe ochracea Ashwin
Hebe ochracea Ashwin
Hebe ochracea Ashwin

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Hebe ochracea Ashwin
New Zealand
Nelson Land District

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typification
Holotype: Cobb Valley, N. W. Nelson, F. G. Gibbs, CHR 97077. Isotype: AK 8243 [according to Ashwin (in Allan 1961), although details on labels differ slightly]
Etymology
The epithet ochracea is a reference to the yellowish to brownish colour of the leafy stems.

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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
27 December 2022
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