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Hebe adamsii (Cheeseman) Cockayne & Allan

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Hebe adamsii (Cheeseman) Cockayne & Allan, Trans. New Zealand Inst. 57: 15 (1926)

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(Cheeseman) Cockayne & Allan
Cheeseman
Cockayne & Allan
1926
15
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species
Hebe adamsii

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adamsii

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Hebe adamsii (Cheeseman) Cockayne & Allan

n = 40 bivalents
2n = 80

Hebe adamsii (Cheeseman) Cockayne & Allan

Low spreading shrub up to 1 m tall. Old stems grey-brown; branchlets yellowish brown, drying dark, glabrous or minutely puberulent when young; internodes 3–10x diameter. Leaf bud usually with small rounded sinus, sometimes sinus absent. Leaves erecto-patent to patent; lamina lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, coriaceous, glossy bronze green above, slightly duller beneath, (30–)50–100 × (7–)10–18(–28) mm, glabrous except for minute glands and short eglandular hairs on midrib above, young leaves sometimes ciliolate or minutely glandular along margins; apex subacute to acute; base abruptly narrowed to short ciliolate petiole; margin entire, glabrous, pale, weakly bevelled. Inflorescences lateral, racemose, 5–10(–15) cm long; flowers distant, spiralled. Peduncle and rachis with minute spreading eglandular hairs; peduncle 1–3 cm long. Bracts linear, acute, ciliolate, usually shorter than or equalling pedicels, rarely longer. Pedicels erecto-patent to spreading, 2.5–4 mm long. Flowers weakly turpentine-scented, protandrous. Calyx lobes broadly ovate, acuminate, overlapping at edges, 3 × 1 .5–2 mm; outer surface with scattered minute sessile glands; margin eglandular- and glandularciliolate. Corolla pale pinkish mauve, fading dirty white; tube 2.5–4 mm long, broad and rounded at base, puberulent inside; lobes suberect, ovate to lanceolate, subauriculate at base, acute, 4–5 × 2.5– 4 mm. Anthers pale mauve, acute, 2 .5 mm long; filaments pinkish mauve, fading white, 6–7 m m long, curving outwards after dehiscence. Nectarial disk glabrous, fleshy, dark green. Style white, glabrous, 6–7 mm long; stigma subcapitate. Ovary cylindrical, glabrous, 1–1.2 × 0.8 mm; ovules c . 8– 10 per locule, marginal on a discoid placenta. Capsule ovoid, acute, pale brown, 4.5–5(–6) × 3.5– 4 mm, septicidal to base, loculicidal to half-way. Seeds brown, elliptic to subcircular, strongly flattened, smooth, 2–2.5 × 1 .5–2 mm.

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Hebe adamsii (Cheeseman) Cockayne & Allan
Hebe adamsii (Cheeseman) Cockayne & Allan
Hebe adamsii (Cheeseman) Cockayne & Allan
Hebe adamsii (Cheeseman) Cockayne & Allan
Hebe adamsii (Cheeseman) Cockayne & Allan
Hebe adamsii (Cheeseman) Cockayne & Allan
Hebe adamsii (Cheeseman) Cockayne & Allan
Hebe adamsii (Cheeseman) Cockayne & Allan
Hebe adamsii (Cheeseman) Cockayne & Allan
Hebe adamsii (Cheeseman) Cockayne & Allan
Hebe adamsii (Cheeseman) Cockayne & Allan
Hebe adamsii (Cheeseman) Cockayne & Allan
Hebe adamsii (Cheeseman) Cockayne & Allan
Hebe adamsii (Cheeseman) Cockayne & Allan
Hebe adamsii (Cheeseman) Cockayne & Allan

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1 January 2000
26 August 2022
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