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Hebe murrellii G.Simpson & J.S.Thomson

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Hebe murrellii G.Simpson & J.S.Thomson, Trans. & Proc. Roy. Soc. New Zealand 73: 165 (1943)

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G.Simpson & J.S.Thomson
G.Simpson & J.S.Thomson
1943
165
ICN
Hebe murrellii G.Simpson & J.S.Thomson
species
Hebe murrellii
The epithet honours the Murrell family of Manapouri, well-known explorers, guides, and botanists in Fiordland, most likely especially Leslie Murrell (1893–1953).
Holotype: Kepler Range at sources of the Freeman River, moist shaded openings amongst rocks G. Simpson and J. S. Thomson, March 1942 (note written on sheet in pencil, under label, states “Fowler Pass…leg. et ident. G. Simpson”), CHR 75695. Probable isotype: AK 22904

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murrellii

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Hebe murrellii G.Simpson & J.S.Thomson

Spreading or trailing gynodioecious subshrub with ascending to erect branchlets, to 20 cm tall. Old stems grey or brown; branchlet s greenish to pale brown, with red band at nodes, bifariously pubescent; internodes 1–2x diameter. Leaf bud with narrow acuminate sinus. Leave s spreading, very shortly connate; lamina elliptic to obovate, subcoriaceous, yellowish green above and beneath, 3.5–9 × 2–5 mm, usually with sparse, very short, tapering eglandular hairs on midrib above an d beneath and margins, rarely glabrous; apex broadly rounded; base cuneately narrowed to short broad flat petiole; margin entire, yellowish, rounded. Inflorescences terminal, racemose, 1–3 cm long; flowers crowded, spiralled. Peduncle and rachis puberulent; peduncle very short. Bracts linear-lanceolate to narrow-elliptic, obtuse to acute, minutely ciliolate, slightly shorter than calyx lobes. Pedicels erecto-patent, 0.5–2 mm long. Flowers sweetly scented, female or hermaphrodite on separate plants. Calyx lobes 4, oblong to elliptic, obtuse to subacute, not overlapping, 2.5–3 × 1– 1.5 mm; margin minutely glandular and eglandular ciliolate. Corolla white; tube 1.5–2 × 1 .5–2 mm, funnelform, glabrous; lobes recurved, elliptic (female) to broadly elliptic (hermaphrodite), obtuse, 2.5–3 × 1.5–2.5 mm. Anthers purple, obtuse, fertile and c. 2 mm long (hermaphrodite) or sterile and c. 1 mm long (female); filaments white, long-exserted , 1(female)–3(hermaphrodite) mm long, erect or slightly spreading. Nectarial disk glabrous, fleshy, green. Style white, glabrous, (1–)3–5 mm long, curving to anterior of flower, clavate below stigma; stigma subcapitate. Ovary ovoid, glabrous, c. 1 × 0.7 mm; ovules 12–15 per locule, marginal on a discoid placenta. Capsule flattened, ovate, acute, dark brown, 3.5–4 × 3 mm, 1 mm thick, septicidal to base, loculicidal at apex only. Seeds pale orangebrown, elliptic, strongly piano-convex, smooth, 0.9– 1.1 × 0.6–0.8 mm. Chromosome number 2n = 42 (Hair 1967, as H. petriei var . petriei, now redetermined as H. murrellii).

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Hebe murrellii G.Simpson & J.S.Thomson
Hebe murrellii G.Simpson & J.S.Thomson
Hebe murrellii G.Simpson & J.S.Thomson
Hebe murrellii G.Simpson & J.S.Thomson
Hebe murrellii G.Simpson & J.S.Thomson
Hebe murrellii G.Simpson & J.S.Thomson
Hebe murrellii G.Simpson & J.S.Thomson
Hebe murrellii G.Simpson & J.S.Thomson
Hebe murrellii G.Simpson & J.S.Thomson
Hebe murrellii G.Simpson & J.S.Thomson
Hebe murrellii G.Simpson & J.S.Thomson
Hebe murrellii G.Simpson & J.S.Thomson
Hebe murrellii G.Simpson & J.S.Thomson
Hebe murrellii G.Simpson & J.S.Thomson
Hebe murrellii G.Simpson & J.S.Thomson
Hebe murrellii G.Simpson & J.S.Thomson

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Hebe murrellii G.Simpson & J.S.Thomson
New Zealand
Southland Land District

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typification
Holotype: Kepler Range at sources of the Freeman River, moist shaded openings amongst rocks G. Simpson and J. S. Thomson, March 1942 (note written on sheet in pencil, under label, states “Fowler Pass…leg. et ident. G. Simpson”), CHR 75695. Probable isotype: AK 22904
Etymology
The epithet honours the Murrell family of Manapouri, well-known explorers, guides, and botanists in Fiordland, most likely especially Leslie Murrell (1893–1953).
editorial
The epithet honours the Murrell family of Manapouri, Robert Murrell (1818–1896) and his descendants, well-known explorers and guides in Fiordland. It is likely this species was named after Leslie Murrell (1893–1953), who prepared a track from North Arm (Lake Manapouri) to Gaer Arm (Bradshaw Sound) and ferried Simpson and Thomson to North Arm in his passenger launch, Pilgrim. However, several other members of the family have also been keen botanists and had associations with Simpson and Thomson. (Prepared from information kindly supplied by Jack Murrell, Manapouri.)

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1 January 2000
5 January 2023
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