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Veronica lycopodioides Hook.f.

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Veronica lycopodioides Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 211 (1864)
Veronica lycopodioides Hook.f.

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Endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region

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Hook.f.
Hook.f.
1864
211
ICN
Veronica lycopodioides Hook.f.
species
Veronica lycopodioides
The epithet lycopodioides refers to its resemblance to Lycopodium, a club moss.
Lectotype (designated by Bayly & Kellow 2004): Wairau Gorge, 4-5000 ft, Travers 27, Herb. Hookerianum, K, three flowering pieces on upper left of sheet (which also includes material collected by Hector (Clarence Valley, 4000 ft), and Sinclair)

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lycopodioides

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Erect, much-branched, rather rigid shrub up to c. 1 m. or more tall. Branchlets 2-3 mm. diam., strongly tetragonous, yellow-green; internodes c. 1 mm. long, entirely hidden; nodal joint well-marked. Lvs 1∙5-2-(2.5) mm. long, connate up to ⅓ length, broadly deltoid to semicircular, thick, strongly concavo-convex, rounded on back, appressed, apex obtuse or subacute, ribbed or striped with yellow for short distance from cartilaginous yellow margins, rather suddenly narrowed into thickened blunt yellow cusp or spine up to ⅓ total lf-length but sts much less. Spikes 3-12-fld. Bracts 2-3 mm. long, ovate-rhomboid, cuspidate, strongly ribbed, yellowish. Calyx 2-3 mm. long, anterior lobes oblong-ovate, subacute, ribbed, free for c. ⅔ length. Corolla-tube = or > calyx. Capsule 3-4 × 2 mm., oval, subacute, much > calyx.
Smaller, with decumbent rooting stems forming low patches 5-10 cm. tall; branchlets 1·5-2 mm. diam. Lvs smaller and narrower, ± 1-2 mm. long, gradually narrowed into a thickened acute tip but scarcely cuspidate, weakly ribbed near upper margin.
2n = 40
n = 20
2n = 40
n = 20
n = 20
2n = 40

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Hebe lycopodioides (Hook.f.) Andersen
Veronica lycopodioides Hook.f.
Hebe lycopodioides (Hook.f.) Cockayne & Allan
Veronica lycopodioides Hook.f.
Hebe lycopodioides (Hook.f.) Andersen
Veronica lycopodioides Hook.f.
Hebe lycopodioides (Hook.f.) Cockayne & Allan subsp. lycopodioides
Veronica lycopodioides Hook.f.
Hebe lycopodioides subsp. patula (G.Simpson & J.S.Thomson) Wagstaff & Wardle
Veronica lycopodioides Hook.f.
Hebe lycopodioides subsp. patula (G.Simpson & J.S.Thomson) Wagstaff & Wardle
Veronica lycopodioides Hook.f.
Hebe lycopodioides (Hook.f.) Cockayne & Allan var. lycopodioides
Veronica lycopodioides Hook.f.
Hebe lycopodioides var. patula G.Simpson & J.S.Thomson
Hebe lycopodioides var. patula G.Simpson & J.S.Thomson
Veronica lycopodioides Hook.f.
Hebe lycopodioides var. patula G.Simpson & J.S.Thomson
Veronica lycopodioides Hook.f.
Leonohebe lycopodioides (Hook.f.) Heads
Veronica lycopodioides Hook.f.
Leonohebe lycopodioides (Hook.f.) Heads
Veronica lycopodioides Hook.f.
Leonohebe lycopodioides var. patula (G.Simpson & J.S.Thomson) Heads
Veronica lycopodioides Hook.f.
Leonohebe lycopodioides var. patula (G.Simpson & J.S.Thomson) Heads
Veronica lycopodioides Hook.f.
Veronica lycopodioides Hook.f.
Veronica lycopodioides Hook.f.
Veronica lycopodioides Hook.f.
Veronica lycopodioides Hook.f.
Veronica lycopodioides Hook.f.
Veronica lycopodioides Hook.f.
Veronica lycopodioides Hook.f.
Veronica lycopodioides Hook.f.
Veronica lycopodioides Hook.f.
Veronica lycopodioides Hook.f.

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New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Veronica lycopodioides Hook.f.
New Zealand
Veronica lycopodioides Hook.f.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Veronica lycopodioides Hook.f.
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
Veronica lycopodioides Hook.f.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Veronica lycopodioides Hook.f.
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Veronica lycopodioides Hook.f.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District

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typification
Lectotype (designated by Bayly & Kellow 2004): Wairau Gorge, 4-5000 ft, Travers 27, Herb. Hookerianum, K, three flowering pieces on upper left of sheet (which also includes material collected by Hector (Clarence Valley, 4000 ft), and Sinclair)
Etymology
The epithet lycopodioides refers to its resemblance to Lycopodium, a club moss.

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23 August 2005
5 January 2023
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