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Veronica hectorii Hook.f.

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Veronica hectorii Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 212 (1864)
Veronica hectorii Hook.f.

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Endemic
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New Zealand
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Hook.f.
Hook.f.
1864
212
hectori
The classical Latin name is Hector, gen. Hectoris, not “Hectorus”. This being so, genitive epithets “hectori” would be correctable to "hectorii", especially if honouring modern persons with the family name Hector, "Hectorii" is to be preferred epithet. For species (if any) commemorating the ancient Greek hero, hectoris would be preferable.
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Veronica hectorii Hook.f.
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Veronica hectorii
The epithet hectorii honours James Hector (1834–1907), geologist, explorer, and founder of several scientific institutions in New Zealand.
Lectotype (designated by Ashwin, in Allan 1961): Otago, Mt Alta, Hector no. 27, 1863, Herb. Hookerianum, K (small broken piece, mounted on lower right of sheet that also includes material collected by Sinclair and Haast, and Hector and Buchanan)

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hectorii

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Small, erect, rather rigid shrub 10-75 cm. tall; stems and branches stout, sts decumbent and rooting at base, ascending, closely or rather sparsely branched. Ultimate branchlets erect, 3-10 cm. long, (2)-2.5-3·5 mm. diam., terete or weakly tetragonous at tips, rather hard and rigid, often glossy; internodes 1-2 mm. long, hidden or only very slightly exposed; nodal joint well-marked. Lvs 2-2*5 mm. long, connate for 1/4 to 1/2 length, broadly ovate-deltoid, thick, rounded on back, tip obtuse to subacute, convexly incurved and ± spreading, sts smoothly appressed and broadly obtuse with abrupt, small, blunt mucro. Spikes 1-1·5 cm. long, up to c. 15-fld. Bracts c. 2.5 mm. long, broadly ovate, obtuse to acute or mucronate, weakly ribbed. Calyx 2.5-3·5 mm. long, anterior lobes ovate-oblong, obtuse or subacute, weakly ribbed, free ⅓ to ⅔ length. Corolla-tube = or > calyx. Capsule 2.5-4 × 2-3 mm., oval to oblong, obtuse or subacute, > calyx.

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New Zealand
Otago Land District
New Zealand
Southland Land District
Veronica hectorii Hook.f.
New Zealand
Veronica hectorii Hook.f.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Veronica hectorii Hook.f.
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Veronica hectorii Hook.f.
New Zealand
Southland Land District

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typification
Lectotype (designated by Ashwin, in Allan 1961): Otago, Mt Alta, Hector no. 27, 1863, Herb. Hookerianum, K (small broken piece, mounted on lower right of sheet that also includes material collected by Sinclair and Haast, and Hector and Buchanan)
Etymology
The epithet hectorii honours James Hector (1834–1907), geologist, explorer, and founder of several scientific institutions in New Zealand.

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23 August 2005
1 December 2022
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