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Veronica rapensis F.Br.

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Veronica rapensis F.Br., Bulletin of Bishop Museum 130: 266 (1935)
Veronica rapensis F.Br.

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New Zealand
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F.Br.
F.Br.
1935
130: 266
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Veronica rapensis F.Br.
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Veronica rapensis
Syntypes: Rapa, Mitiperu, steep slope, 1150 feet, J. F. G. S[tokes] 372, 26 Oct 1921, BISH 581153, BISH 581154. NOTES: the protologue clearly states that Stokes 372 is the type. Garnock-Jones (1976a) considered BISH 581154 (labelled Stokes 372) to be the holotype, but was unaware that additional material from the same collection was also mounted on another sheet. Subsequent annotations on specimens at BISH (fide D. Gowing Nov. 1990) suggest that BISH 581153 is the holotype, and BISH 581154 an isotype. The reasons for this assertion are unknown. If the two sheets are not cross-labelled (see Greuter et al. 2000, Art. 8, Ex. 4) they should be regarded as separate specimens; one should be Lectotype, the other an isolectotype.

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rapensis

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Erect to spreading shrub up to 60 cm tall. Branches erect or ascending, bearing leaves in upper portions and ringed with leaf base scars below. Young branches dark brown, 2-5 mm thick, densely uniformly (rarely bifariously) pubescent with short fine stiff hairs, old branches pale brown, glabrous, up to 1 cm thick with longitudinally furrowed bark. Internodes 0.5-1 cm long. Leaf bud without sinus, leaves spreading, sessile. Lamina glabrous except for short fine stiff hairs along midrib and near base adaxially, sometimes ciliolate near base, (2)-3-5-(7) × (0.5)-0.8-1.5 cm, lanceolate, tapering from about halfway to narrow subacute apex, amplexicaul to subauriculate, entire with narrow cartilaginous border, margin slightly recurved, midrib depressed above, prominent below. Inflorescence a lateral axillary raceme, equal to or slightly longer than the leaves; peduncle 1-2 cm long, finely pubescent, shorter than flowering portion; flowers crowded, not opposite; bracts 1-2 mm long, narrowly lanceolate, ciliolate; pedicels 3-4 mm long, ascending, finely pubescent. Calyx 2-3 mm long, lobes 4, narrowly ovate, acute to acuminate, ciliolate; corolla white or tinged with purple, tube c. 1 mm long, hairy within, lobes 4, 1.5-2 mm long, spreading, obtuse, the anterior lobe narrower than the others; anthers c. 1 mm long, filaments 3-4 mm long; ovary glabrous, 1 mm long, broadest near base, acute, style c. 3 mm long, glabrous, stigma discoid, hardly broader than the style. Capsule ovate, glabrous, 3-5 mm long, acute, flattened, latiseptate, dehiscing by septicidal split threequarters way to base, loculicidal split halfway to base.

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Veronica rapensis F.Br.
French Polynesia

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Syntypes: Rapa, Mitiperu, steep slope, 1150 feet, J. F. G. S[tokes] 372, 26 Oct 1921, BISH 581153, BISH 581154. NOTES: the protologue clearly states that Stokes 372 is the type. Garnock-Jones (1976a) considered BISH 581154 (labelled Stokes 372) to be the holotype, but was unaware that additional material from the same collection was also mounted on another sheet. Subsequent annotations on specimens at BISH (fide D. Gowing Nov. 1990) suggest that BISH 581153 is the holotype, and BISH 581154 an isotype. The reasons for this assertion are unknown. If the two sheets are not cross-labelled (see Greuter et al. 2000, Art. 8, Ex. 4) they should be regarded as separate specimens; one should be Lectotype, the other an isolectotype.

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5 August 2005
2 January 2023
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