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Hebe brevifolia (Cheeseman) de Lange

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Hebe brevifolia (Cheeseman) de Lange, New Zealand J. Bot. 35: 1 (1997)

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(Cheeseman) de Lange
Cheeseman
de Lange
1997
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Hebe brevifolia

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brevifolia

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Hebe brevifolia (Cheeseman) de Lange

2n = 120
n = 59
2n = 118
2n = 118

Hebe brevifolia (Cheeseman) de Lange

Low spreading or decumbent shrub forming mounds up to 0.7 m tall × 3 m wide. Mature stems greyish-white; branches semi-erect or ascending, often spreading and then rooting from nodes. Branchlets greenish-yellow, occasionally spotted maroon-black, drying grey-black, minutely puberulent when young; internodes 1-16 × stem diameter. Leaf bud without sinus, olive green in colour. Leaves lanceolate-elliptic or oblanceolate, rarely obovate, (2-)4.5-7.5 × (0.9-)1.3-2(-2.5) cm, coriaceous, olive green or dark green with pale yellow midrib; surface glossy, ± glabrous except for sparse minute eglandular hairs on the adaxial surface; apex white or greenish-white, obtuse to subacute, often apiculate; base attenuate; margin entire, often markedly thickened, ± recurved, greenish-yellow or greenish-white. Inflorescences lateral, racemose, 2—5(—7) cm long, distal part usually comprised of aborted and withered flower buds (often falling and leaving a truncated raceme); flowers widely spaced on rachis, rarely crowded towards apex of raceme, pedicellate, loosely spiralled. Rachis maroon- black, densely covered in minute white eglandular hairs. Peduncle greenish yellow, often spotted or streaked maroon, rarely entirely maroonblack, sparsely puberulent, 1-3.5 cm long. Floral bracts fleshy, ovate-elliptic, obtuse to subacute, either green-spotted maroon, or entirely maroon-black, ± glabrous with ciliolate margins, 0.5-1 mm long. Pedicels patent, 3-5(-6) mm long, densely covered in white minute, eglandular hairs. Flowers, hermaphrodite, faintly scented; calyx lobes fleshy, ovate, subacute, maroon-black, overlapping at edges (2)- 3-4 mm long; ± glabrous or sparsely covered in minute eglandular hairs; margin ± alternating glandular- eglandular ciliolate. Corolla crimson or magenta (but white-flushed pink beneath calyx lobes), fading to rose-pink or violet-purple after anthesis; tube 5-6 mm long, broadly truncate, inner surface sparsely hairy; lobes erect to suberect, ovate to subacute, 5-6 × 3-4 mm. Anthers red-purple, subacute, 1.5 mm long; pollen pale yellow; filaments crimson, 11-13 mm long, straight in bud, curving outwards after anthesis. Nectarial disc glabrous, fleshy, dark green; nectar viscid, clear. Styles carmine, glabrous, 8—10 mm long; stigma white, capitate. Ovary light green, ovoid or ellipsoid, glabrous, 2-3 × 0.6- 1.5 mm. Capsule dark brown, broadly ovate, subacute, 6.5-8 × 5-6 mm, glabrous, septicidal to base. Seeds greenish-brown, ovoid, slightly papillate with a faint pink margin, 1.8 × 1.2—1.4 mm. Chromosome number n = 59 (Hair 1967, fig. 25, p. 328, CHR 103080), 2n = 118 (B. G. Murray pers. comm., AK 227425). FL Dec-May, however, in cultivation sporadic flowering may be noted at any time of the year.

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Hebe brevifolia (Cheeseman) de Lange
Hebe brevifolia (Cheeseman) de Lange
Hebe brevifolia (Cheeseman) de Lange
Hebe brevifolia (Cheeseman) de Lange
Hebe brevifolia (Cheeseman) de Lange
Hebe brevifolia (Cheeseman) de Lange
Hebe brevifolia (Cheeseman) de Lange
Hebe brevifolia (Cheeseman) de Lange
Hebe brevifolia (Cheeseman) de Lange
Hebe brevifolia (Cheeseman) de Lange
Hebe brevifolia (Cheeseman) de Lange
Hebe brevifolia (Cheeseman) de Lange
Hebe brevifolia (Cheeseman) de Lange
Hebe brevifolia (Cheeseman) de Lange
Hebe brevifolia (Cheeseman) de Lange
Hebe brevifolia (Cheeseman) de Lange
Hebe brevifolia (Cheeseman) de Lange
Hebe brevifolia (Cheeseman) de Lange
Hebe brevifolia (Cheeseman) de Lange
Hebe brevifolia (Cheeseman) de Lange
Hebe brevifolia (Cheeseman) de Lange
Hebe brevifolia (Cheeseman) de Lange
Hebe brevifolia (Cheeseman) de Lange

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1 January 2000
6 January 2023
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