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<taxonomicName LSID="C387FAE2-F046-56B2-8A9F-5BD714A3FC9F" authority="(A. Rich.) Joy Thomps." authorityName="(A. Rich.) Joy Thomps." class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">Kunzea ericoides (A.Rich.) Joy Thomps.</taxonomicName>
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<paragraph pageId="19" pageNumber="20">
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<taxonomicName authorityName="A. Rich" authorityYear="1832" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Leptospermum" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Leptospermum ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">Leptospermum ericoides</taxonomicName>
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A.Rich in
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">Essai. Fl. N.Z.</emphasis>
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, (1832), 338
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<paragraph pageId="19" pageNumber="20">Lectotype</paragraph>
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">(here designated)</emphasis>
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">
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(Fig.
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 2" captionStartId="F2" captionText="Figure 2. Lectotype of Leptospermum ericoides A. Rich. (held at l'Herbier du Laboratoire de Phanerogamie du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle (P ))." pageId="19" pageNumber="20">2</figureCitation>
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).
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</emphasis>
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'
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<taxonomicName authorityName="A. Rich" authorityYear="1832" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Leptospermum" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Leptospermum ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">Leptospermum ericoides</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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nob. Nlle
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Zélande’">Zelande'</normalizedToken>
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Herbarium Richard, Ex. Herbier E. Drake, P! Specimen labelled
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in bold red lettering and bearing two handwritten labels by W. Harris dated 26 July 1989.
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<caption pageId="19" pageNumber="20" start="Figure 2" startId="F2">
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<paragraph pageId="19" pageNumber="20">
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">Figure 2.</emphasis>
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Lectotype of
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<taxonomicName authorityName="A. Rich" authorityYear="1832" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Leptospermum" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Leptospermum ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">Leptospermum ericoides</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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A.Rich. (held at
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<normalizedToken originalValue="l’Herbier">l'Herbier</normalizedToken>
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du Laboratoire de
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Phanérogamie">Phanerogamie</normalizedToken>
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du
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Muséum">Museum</normalizedToken>
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National
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<normalizedToken originalValue="d’Histoire">d'Histoire</normalizedToken>
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Naturelle (P)).
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</paragraph>
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</caption>
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</subSubSection>
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<subSubSection pageId="19" pageNumber="20" type="paralectotype">
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<paragraph pageId="19" pageNumber="20">Paralectotype</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="19" pageNumber="20">
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">(here designated)</emphasis>
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">
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(Fig.
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 3" captionStartId="F3" captionText="Figure 3. Paralectotype of A Leptospermum ericoides (held at l'Herbier du Laboratoire de Phanerogamie du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle (P )). B Enlargement of paralectotype label showing Achille Richard's distinctive handwriting." pageId="19" pageNumber="20">3</figureCitation>
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).
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</emphasis>
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'
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<taxonomicName authorityName="A. Rich" authorityYear="1832" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Leptospermum" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Leptospermum ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">Leptospermum ericoides</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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A.Rich. fl Nlle
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Zél">Zel</normalizedToken>
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338 Nlle
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Zélande">Zelande</normalizedToken>
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(Astrolabe)' P214999!
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</paragraph>
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<caption pageId="19" pageNumber="20" start="Figure 3" startId="F3">
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<paragraph pageId="19" pageNumber="20">
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">Figure 3.</emphasis>
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Paralectotype of
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">A</emphasis>
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<taxonomicName authorityName="A. Rich" authorityYear="1832" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Leptospermum" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Leptospermum ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">Leptospermum ericoides</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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(held at
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<normalizedToken originalValue="l’Herbier">l'Herbier</normalizedToken>
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du Laboratoire de
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Phanérogamie">Phanerogamie</normalizedToken>
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du
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Muséum">Museum</normalizedToken>
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National
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<normalizedToken originalValue="d’Histoire">d'Histoire</normalizedToken>
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Naturelle (P)).
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">B</emphasis>
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Enlargement of paralectotype label showing Achille
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Richard’s">Richard's</normalizedToken>
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distinctive handwriting.
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</paragraph>
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</caption>
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</subSubSection>
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<subSubSection pageId="19" pageNumber="20" type="notes">
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<paragraph pageId="19" pageNumber="20">Notes.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="19" pageNumber="20">
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<bibRefCitation author="Allan, HH" journalOrPublisher="Flora of New Zealand" pageId="96" pageNumber="97" refId="B2" refString="Allan, HH, 1961. . Flora of New Zealand Vol. I" volume="Vol. I" year="1961">Allan (1961</bibRefCitation>
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; p. 322),
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<bibRefCitation author="Thompson, J" journalOrPublisher="Telopea" pageId="103" pageNumber="104" pagination="379 - 383" refId="B122" refString="Thompson, J, 1983. Redefinitions and nomenclatural changes within the Leptospermum suballiance of Myrtaceae. Telopea 2: 379 - 383" title="Redefinitions and nomenclatural changes within the Leptospermum suballiance of Myrtaceae." volume="2" year="1983">Thompson (1983)</bibRefCitation>
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and
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<bibRefCitation author="Harris, W" editor="Burrows, CJ" journalOrPublisher="Manuka Press, Christchurch" pageId="100" pageNumber="101" pagination="35 - 51" refId="B66" refString="Harris, W, Cadic, A, 1998. The Raoul collection in Paris and 'Choix de plantes de la Nouvelle-Zelande'. In: Burrows, CJ, Ed., Etienne Raoul and Canterbury Botany 1840-1996. Canterbury Botanical Society Special Publication. Manuka Press, Christchurch: 35 - 51" title="The Raoul collection in Paris and ' Choix de plantes de la Nouvelle-Zelande'." volumeTitle="Etienne Raoul and Canterbury Botany 1840 - 1996. Canterbury Botanical Society Special Publication." year="1998">Harris and Cadic (1998</bibRefCitation>
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; p. 36) published partial lectotypifications of
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<taxonomicName authorityName="A. Rich" authorityYear="1832" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Leptospermum" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Leptospermum ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">Leptospermum ericoides</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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A.Rich (see Article 9, of the International Code of Nomenclature (
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<bibRefCitation author="McNeill, J" journalOrPublisher="Regnum Vegetabile" pageId="101" pageNumber="102" publicationUrl="http://www.iapt-taxon.org/nomen/main.php" refId="B86" refString="McNeill, J, Barrie, FF, Buck, WR, Demoulin, V, Greuter, W, Hawksworth, DL, Herendeen, PS, Knapp, S, Marhold, J, Prado, JWF, Prud'Homme van Reine, WF, Smith, GF, Wiersema, J, Turland, NJ, 2012. International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi and plants (Melbourne Code). Regnum Vegetabile 154, http://www.iapt-taxon.org/nomen/main.php" title="International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi and plants (Melbourne Code)." url="http://www.iapt-taxon.org/nomen/main.php" volume="154" year="2012">McNeill et al. 2012</bibRefCitation>
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). The first two authors did this through their citation of elements of the protologue and by their indication of where type material was lodged, while
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<bibRefCitation author="Harris, W" editor="Burrows, CJ" journalOrPublisher="Manuka Press, Christchurch" pageId="100" pageNumber="101" pagination="35 - 51" refId="B66" refString="Harris, W, Cadic, A, 1998. The Raoul collection in Paris and 'Choix de plantes de la Nouvelle-Zelande'. In: Burrows, CJ, Ed., Etienne Raoul and Canterbury Botany 1840-1996. Canterbury Botanical Society Special Publication. Manuka Press, Christchurch: 35 - 51" title="The Raoul collection in Paris and ' Choix de plantes de la Nouvelle-Zelande'." volumeTitle="Etienne Raoul and Canterbury Botany 1840 - 1996. Canterbury Botanical Society Special Publication." year="1998">Harris and Cadic (1998)</bibRefCitation>
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also published statements of their intent to typify, noting also the location of type material and stating that they had seen
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<normalizedToken originalValue="‘Richard’s">'Richard's</normalizedToken>
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<normalizedToken originalValue="type’">type'</normalizedToken>
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. However, because there are at least two syntypes of
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<taxonomicName authorityName="A. Rich" authorityYear="1832" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Leptospermum" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Leptospermum ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">Leptospermum ericoides</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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A.Rich. in
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<normalizedToken originalValue="l’Herbier">l'Herbier</normalizedToken>
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du Laboratoire de
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Phanérogamie">Phanerogamie</normalizedToken>
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du
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Muséum">Museum</normalizedToken>
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National
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<normalizedToken originalValue="d’Histoire">d'Histoire</normalizedToken>
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Naturelle (P) (Figs
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 2" captionStartId="F2" captionText="Figure 2. Lectotype of Leptospermum ericoides A. Rich. (held at l'Herbier du Laboratoire de Phanerogamie du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle (P ))." pageId="19" pageNumber="20">2</figureCitation>
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,
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 3" captionStartId="F3" captionText="Figure 3. Paralectotype of A Leptospermum ericoides (held at l'Herbier du Laboratoire de Phanerogamie du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle (P )). B Enlargement of paralectotype label showing Achille Richard's distinctive handwriting." pageId="19" pageNumber="20">3</figureCitation>
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) that bear the distinctive handwriting of Achille Richard (Fig.
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 2" captionStartId="F2" captionText="Figure 2. Lectotype of Leptospermum ericoides A. Rich. (held at l'Herbier du Laboratoire de Phanerogamie du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle (P ))." pageId="19" pageNumber="20">2</figureCitation>
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,
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 3" captionStartId="F3" captionText="Figure 3. Paralectotype of A Leptospermum ericoides (held at l'Herbier du Laboratoire de Phanerogamie du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle (P )). B Enlargement of paralectotype label showing Achille Richard's distinctive handwriting." pageId="19" pageNumber="20">3</figureCitation>
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; see also
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<bibRefCitation author="Burdet, HM" journalOrPublisher="Candollea" pageId="97" pageNumber="98" pagination="141 - 142" refId="B20" refString="Burdet, HM, 1978. Cartulae and botanicorum graphicum. XII. Candollea 33: 141 - 142" title="Cartulae and botanicorum graphicum. XII." volume="33" year="1978">Burdet 1978</bibRefCitation>
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) and match the protologue with respect to their morphological condition and collection details, and because none of these
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<normalizedToken originalValue="author’s">author's</normalizedToken>
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publications specified which one of these was the lectotype, a further lectotypification is necessary. Of the two sheets that I have seen, both are without date or collector. One (Fig.
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 2" captionStartId="F2" captionText="Figure 2. Lectotype of Leptospermum ericoides A. Rich. (held at l'Herbier du Laboratoire de Phanerogamie du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle (P ))." pageId="19" pageNumber="20">2</figureCitation>
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) from the 'Herbarium
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Richard’">Richard'</normalizedToken>
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has two labels. The first of these is in
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Richard’s">Richard's</normalizedToken>
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hand and reads 'Leptospermum ericoides nob. Nlle
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Zélande’">Zelande'</normalizedToken>
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. The second label is printed 'HERB. MUS.
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and 'HERBIER E.
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. This sheet has also been stamped by the herbarium staff (P. Morat pers. comm.)
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<normalizedToken originalValue="‘TYPE’">'TYPE'</normalizedToken>
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and bears two handwritten labels by W. Harris. The upper label states 'Lectotype designation on the basis of ex Herbier E. Drake ex Herbarium Richard (in red) and
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<taxonomicName authorityName="A. Rich" authorityYear="1832" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Leptospermum" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Leptospermum ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">Leptospermum ericoides</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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Rich.' and the next reads 'Designated Lectotype
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<taxonomicName authorityName="A. Rich" authorityYear="1832" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Leptospermum" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Leptospermum ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">Leptospermum ericoides</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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A.Rich. Essai. Fl. N.Z. 1832, 338, syn.
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<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">Kunzea ericoides</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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(A. Richard) Joy Thompson
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<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Proteaceae" genus="Telopea" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Telopea" order="Proteales" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" phylum="Spermatophyta" rank="genus">Telopea</taxonomicName>
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2(4) 378, 1983 W. Harris 26 July 1988'. The second herbarium sheet (Fig.
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 3" captionStartId="F3" captionText="Figure 3. Paralectotype of A Leptospermum ericoides (held at l'Herbier du Laboratoire de Phanerogamie du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle (P )). B Enlargement of paralectotype label showing Achille Richard's distinctive handwriting." pageId="19" pageNumber="20">3</figureCitation>
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) also bears two labels (Fig.
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 2" captionStartId="F2" captionText="Figure 2. Lectotype of Leptospermum ericoides A. Rich. (held at l'Herbier du Laboratoire de Phanerogamie du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle (P ))." pageId="19" pageNumber="20">2A, B</figureCitation>
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). The first of these (see Fig.
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 3" captionStartId="F3" captionText="Figure 3. Paralectotype of A Leptospermum ericoides (held at l'Herbier du Laboratoire de Phanerogamie du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle (P )). B Enlargement of paralectotype label showing Achille Richard's distinctive handwriting." pageId="19" pageNumber="20">3B</figureCitation>
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) is written in
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Richard’s">Richard's</normalizedToken>
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hand, and reads '
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<taxonomicName authorityName="A. Rich" authorityYear="1832" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Leptospermum" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Leptospermum ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">Leptospermum ericoides</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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A.Rich. fl. Nov.
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Zél">Zel</normalizedToken>
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. Nlle
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Zélande">Zelande</normalizedToken>
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(Astrolabe)', the second (Fig.
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 3" captionStartId="F3" captionText="Figure 3. Paralectotype of A Leptospermum ericoides (held at l'Herbier du Laboratoire de Phanerogamie du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle (P )). B Enlargement of paralectotype label showing Achille Richard's distinctive handwriting." pageId="19" pageNumber="20">3A</figureCitation>
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) is printed 'HERB. MUS.
|
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<normalizedToken originalValue="PARIS’">PARIS'</normalizedToken>
|
||
. I designate as lectotype, the sheet labelled by Richard '
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="A. Rich" authorityYear="1832" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Leptospermum" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Leptospermum ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">Leptospermum ericoides</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
nob.' because this matches his protologue (p. 338) with respect to the usage of the possessive Latin abbreviation
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="‘nob.’">'nob.'</normalizedToken>
|
||
i.e.
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">nobis</emphasis>
|
||
, meaning 'to us, of
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="us’">us'</normalizedToken>
|
||
in the sense of 'this is my [choice of]
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="name’">name'</normalizedToken>
|
||
(
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="Stearn, W" journalOrPublisher="David and Charles, England" pageId="103" pageNumber="104" refId="B120" refString="Stearn, W, 1992. Botanical Latin. David and Charles, England" title="Botanical Latin" year="1992">Stearn 1992</bibRefCitation>
|
||
; R. O. Gardner pers. comm.). Further, it is the only sheet clearly identified as part of
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="Richard’s">Richard's</normalizedToken>
|
||
herbarium. This was also the sheet designated lectotype by Harris. However, because Harris did not publish this, his lectotypification, although accurate cannot be upheld.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph pageId="19" pageNumber="20">I conservatively designate as paralectotype the second sheet at P. This is because it is without date or collection notes so it is impossible to tell if it was part of the same gathering as the lectotype.</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
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<subSubSection pageId="20" pageNumber="21" type="etymology">
|
||
<paragraph pageId="20" pageNumber="21">
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||
<pageBreakToken pageId="20" pageNumber="21" start="start">Etymology</pageBreakToken>
|
||
.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph pageId="20" pageNumber="21">
|
||
The specific epithet
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="21">ericoides</emphasis>
|
||
alludes to the similarity in the growth form of
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="20" pageNumber="21" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="21">Kunzea ericoides</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
to
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Eudicots" family="Ericaceae" genus="Erica" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Erica arborea" order="Ericales" pageId="20" pageNumber="21" phylum="Magnoliophyta" rank="species" species="arborea">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="21">Erica arborea</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
L. i.e., '
|
||
<taxonomicName genus="Ericam" lsidName="Ericam arboream" pageId="20" pageNumber="21" rank="species" species="arboream">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="21">Ericam arboream</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
habitu
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="referens’">referens'</normalizedToken>
|
||
(
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="Richard, A" journalOrPublisher="Paris" pageId="103" pageNumber="104" refId="B112" refString="Richard, A, 1832. Voyage de Decouvertes de L'Astrolabe, Botanique. In: Essai d'une Flore de La Nouvelle-Zelande. Paris" title="Voyage de Decouvertes de L'Astrolabe, Botanique." volumeTitle="Essai d'une Flore de La Nouvelle-Zelande." year="1832">Richard 1832</bibRefCitation>
|
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; p. 338).
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
<subSubSection lastPageId="21" lastPageNumber="22" pageId="20" pageNumber="21" type="description">
|
||
<paragraph pageId="20" pageNumber="21">Description</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph lastPageId="21" lastPageNumber="22" pageId="20" pageNumber="21">
|
||
(Figs
|
||
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 4" captionStartId="F4" captionText="Figure 4. Distinguishing features of Kunzea ericoides. A Flowering branchlet (ex cult. AK 289138) B Fruiting branchlet (ex cult. AK 289138) C Vegetative bud and branchlet indumentum (ex cult. AK 289138) D Adaxial leaf surface (ex cult. AK 289138) E Abaxial leaf surface (ex cult. AK 289138) F Adaxial leaf apex (ex cult. AK 289138) G Leaf margin indumentum (ex cult. AK 289138) H Leaf variation: (H 1) Abel Tasman National Park, Astrolabe Roadstead, (AK 253380), (H 2) Knuckle Hill (AK 289160) I Flower (top view) (AK 289138) J Flower and hypanthium (side view) (AK 289138) K Flower cross section showing anther, style and ovules (AK 289138) L Style and stigma (AK 289138) M Stamen (AK 289138) N Dehisced fruit (AK 253380). Scale bars: (A, B, H) 10 mm; (C-F, I-N) 1 mm; (G) 0.5 mm." pageId="20" pageNumber="21">4</figureCitation>
|
||
,
|
||
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 5" captionStartId="F5" captionText="Figure 5. Scanning Electron Micrographs of Kunzea ericoides. A-G Branchlet indumentum (AK 253380; AK 289161); Seeds H-K (HR 3766 K Testa surface showing reticulum (CHR 3766). Scale bars: (A, C) 500 μm; (B, D, G, H, J-K) 100 μm; (E, F, I) 1 mm." pageId="20" pageNumber="21">5</figureCitation>
|
||
,
|
||
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 6" captionStartId="F6" captionText="Figure 6. Kunzea ericoides. A Kunzea ericoides trees colonising old burn, South Island, north-west Nelson, Abel Tasman National Park, Awapoto River (photo: P. J. de Lange) B Flowering decumbent plant on windswept ridge line, South Island, north-west Nelson, Wakamarama Range, Knuckle Hill (photo: P. J. de Lange) C Young Kunzea ericoides tree, South Island, north-west Nelson, Marahau (photo: P. J. de Lange) D Mature Kunzea ericoides tree, South Island, north-west Nelson, Canaan Downs (photo: G. M. Crowcroft) E Flowering branchlets, South Island, eastern Nelson, Richmond Range, Hackett Creek (photo: G. M. Crowcroft) F Bark, South Island, eastern Nelson, Richmond Range, Hackett Creek (photo: G. M. Crowcroft) G Bark, South Island, north-west Nelson, Canaan Downs (photo: G. M. Crowcroft) H Flowering branchlet showing brachyblasts, leaves and few-flowered corymbiform botrya, South Island, north-west Nelson, Golden Bay, Pupu Springs (photo: M. D. Wilcox) I Close up of flowers, South Island, north-west Nelson, Golden Bay, Bishops Saddle (photo: G. M. Crowcroft)." pageId="20" pageNumber="21">6</figureCitation>
|
||
).
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">
|
||
<pageBreakToken pageId="21" pageNumber="22" start="start">Growth</pageBreakToken>
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||
habit
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
mostly trees up to 18 m, sometimes (such as on ultramafic rocks and soils) decumbent and trailing forming shrubs up to 2
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
|
||
1 m. Plants with tree-habit usually rather slender and gracile with a somewhat spreading canopy; those in exposed conditions branching at or close to the trunk base, while those growing in dense stands or sheltered sites usually with the lower half devoid of branches. Plants with a decumbent habit usually heavily branched, not rooting on contact with soil.
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">Trunk</emphasis>
|
||
1(-4) arising from the ground, 0.10-0.60(-0.85) m d.b.h., mostly erect, slender, weakly flexuose; often basally buttressed, mature trees usually devoid of branches for the first 1-2(-4) m; decumbent plants with scarcely discernible trunk due to branches arising from or close to the base; basal portion of trunks covered with layers of somewhat firm to semi-detached, weakly tessellated, short to long,
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="±">+/-</normalizedToken>
|
||
irregularly tabular lengths of subcoriaceous brown-grey to greyish-white bark.
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">Bark</emphasis>
|
||
early bark chartaceous to subcoriaceous, brown to grey-brown,
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="±">+/-</normalizedToken>
|
||
elongate, usually bearing a few transverse cracks (especially on branch flanges and decurrent leaf bases) otherwise remaining firmly attached, margins elongate sinuous,
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="±">+/-</normalizedToken>
|
||
entire with scarcely any flaking; old bark similar though more distinctly corky subcoriaceous, often coarsely tessellated or broken in long elongate sections, otherwise remaining firmly attached, if detaching then usually doing so along transverse cracks, and peeling inwards and upwards to leave distinct layers of elongate to coarsely tabular, chartaceous, flakes that are centrally attached, with sinuous margins; upper bark surface usually with much secondary peeling, these flakes similar to primary flakes but more distinctly chartaceous, smaller, narrowly elongate with widely sinuous margins; bark usually crumbling readily in hand, and breaking readily if pulled hard into numerous, small,
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="±">+/-</normalizedToken>
|
||
tabular to distinctly irregular flakes.
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">Branches</emphasis>
|
||
depending on growth habit and situation, numerous, initially arising from close to or at trunk base but as plants mature basally thinning such that branches are retained only in the upper half of the tree; usually rather slender, initially ascending but soon spreading, with apices often distinctly pendulous, branch bases mostly clean, sometimes congested by partially decorticated bark; branchlets numerous, usually rather slender, gracile, initially ascending, soon spreading, terminal growth erect or pendulous; initially bright green or bronze green, sometimes red,
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="±">+/-</normalizedToken>
|
||
quadrangular to subterete, glabrescent; new growth sericeous, indumentum initially copious, soon sparse, deciduous, hairs divergent 0.02-0.05 mm long, hyaline to translucent (appearing silvery-white when young maturing silver-grey), apices straight not curled or curved; leaves of branchlets densely crowded along stems and brachyblasts; brachyblasts usually closely spaced, though in vigorous new growth they are sometimes quite widely spaced.
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">Vegetative buds</emphasis>
|
||
inconspicuous, usually obscured from view by surrounding leaves; at resting stage 0.5-0.8 mm diam. narrowly to broadly ovoid; scales often persistent; (0.4-)1.1 mm long, dark red-brown, broadly ovate, ovate-lanceolate grading through to lanceolate, rostrate to cuspidate; midrib strongly keeled, with one row of 4-8 oil glands on either side of midrib; scales glabrous except for the margins and apex; these densely invested in white, silky hairs.
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">Leaves</emphasis>
|
||
homophyllous; sessile, lamina surfaces glabrous, margins and the basal, adaxial portion of the midrib hairy (especially on young leaves); densely crowded (particularly toward apices) along branchlets and brachyblasts; initially obliquely ascending, mostly suberect to spreading when mature; lamina (4.0-)13.5(-25.0)
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
|
||
(0.5-)1.1(-1.8) mm, bright green to yellow-green, rarely dark green, adaxial surface often glossy when fresh, drying dull, abaxial surface paler; lamina linear, linear-lanceolate, to narrowly lanceolate, straight or with distal quarter weakly recurved, apex acute, sometimes cuspidate, base attenuate; adaxial lamina surface flat to weakly concave, without obvious oil glands, midrib very slightly raised near base, otherwise scarcely evident, basal portion finely and sparsely covered with deciduous, antrorse-appressed sericeous hairs; abaxial surface flat to weakly convex, glandular punctate, oil glands up to 200; midrib glabrous, usually not evident when fresh, sometimes weakly raised just near base, often not evident when dry but sometimes discernible as a slight groove for entire length; lamina margins initially very finely sericeous, becoming glabrate or glabrous; hairs when present antrorse-appressed, forming a fine, often discontinuous band failing just short of lamina apex, otherwise decurrent along leaf bases.
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">Perules</emphasis>
|
||
deciduous or persistent, (0.6-)0.8(-1.5) mm, initially squamiform, becoming foliose toward first flower, dark red-brown, broadly ovate, ovate-lanceolate grading through to lanceolate, rostrate to cuspidate; midrib strongly keeled, with one row of 4-12 oil glands on either side of midrib; glabrous except for the margins and apex; these densely invested in white, sericeous hairs.
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">Inflorescence</emphasis>
|
||
mostly a compact corymbiform to shortly elongate (3-)8(-15)-flowered botryum up to 60 mm long; usually on brachyblasts with the terminal shoot corymbiform or extending as a slightly longer (up to 80 mm long) 6-15-flowered, elongate botryum with flowers usually crowded, terminal portion usually bearing undeveloped flowers and active vegetative growth. Inflorescence axis densely invested with short, weakly divergent silky hairs.
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">Pherophylls</emphasis>
|
||
foliose
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="±">+/-</normalizedToken>
|
||
persistent, 1 per flower; lamina (3.0-)6.7(-7.8)
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
|
||
(0.9-)1.1(-1.4) mm, leaf-like pherophylls bright green (rarely dark green) elliptic, lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, apex acute, base attenuate; adaxial surface weakly concave to flat, oil glands scarcely evident up to 10; midrib scarcely evident at base only, surface glabrous; abaxial surface weakly convex or flat, oil glands up to 30; midrib scarcely evident at base only, lamina margin glabrescent, hairs as for leaf margins.
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">Pedicels</emphasis>
|
||
(1.6-)2.7(-3.8) mm long at anthesis, usually elongating slightly after anthesis, terete, usually glabrous, very rarely sparsely covered with divergent to weakly sericeous hairs.
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">Flower buds</emphasis>
|
||
pyriform to narrowly obconic, apex of mature buds weakly domed to flat, calyx lobes distant, not touching. Fresh flowers when fully expanded (4.1-)6.3(-8.3) mm diam.
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">Hypanthium</emphasis>
|
||
(1.4-)2.1(-3.2)
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
|
||
(1.9-)2.9(-4.1) mm, with free portion (0.4-)0.6(-1.0) mm long, bright green, bronze-green or yellow-green mottled with red; sharply obconic, apex terminating in a usually dark pink or crimson chartaceous rim bearing five persistent suberect to spreading calyx lobes (rim usually drying dark maroon to maroon-black); external hypanthium surface smooth, glabrous (very rarely glabrescent with basal quarter finely and sparsely covered with minute weakly antrorse hairs); oil glands, conspicuous,
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="±">+/-</normalizedToken>
|
||
colourless; ribs not evident when fresh, conspicuous (along with venation) when dry. Calyx lobes 5, suberect to spreading, subcoriaceous, (0.4-)0.7(-1.0)
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
|
||
(0.4-)0.8(-1.0) mm, persistent, orbicular, obtuse to broadly deltoid, red-green, pink or crimson, keel not evident in fresh material, becoming prominent when dried, oil glands conspicuous,
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="±">+/-</normalizedToken>
|
||
colourless, margins glabrous or finely ciliate; cilia white. Receptacle green or pink at anthesis, darkening to crimson or dark magenta after fertilisation.
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">Petals</emphasis>
|
||
5, (1.4-)2.2(-2.6)
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
|
||
(1.5-)2.2(-2.9) mm, white (often drying yellow), orbicular, suborbicular to narrowly ovate, spreading, apex rounded, margins often incurved, entire or very finely denticulate, oil glands usually not evident when fresh,
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="±">+/-</normalizedToken>
|
||
colourless.
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">Stamens</emphasis>
|
||
(10-)18-24(-34) in 1-2 weakly defined whorls, arising from receptacle rim, filaments white. Antipetalous stamens (2-)3(-5), antisepalous 2-3(-4). Antipetalous stamens outcurved usually with distal portion slightly incurved, on filaments 1.6-2.8 mm long, inner stamens if present, confined to the bases of the outermost antipetalous pair, 0.8-1.2 mm, incurved. Antisepalous stamens shorter than outermost antipetalous stamens, 0.6-1.2 mm, weakly to strongly incurved, rarely erect or outcurved, often in mixtures of both. Anthers dorsifixed, 0.35-0.48
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
|
||
0.16-0.24 mm, broadly ellipsoid, latrorse. Pollen white (14.1-)14.6(-17.3)
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="μm">μm</normalizedToken>
|
||
. Anther connective gland prominent, pink or pinkish-orange when fresh, drying red to orange,
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="±">+/-</normalizedToken>
|
||
spheroidal to pyriform,
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="±">+/-</normalizedToken>
|
||
immersed to half of length between anthers,
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="±">+/-</normalizedToken>
|
||
coarsely papillate.
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">Ovary</emphasis>
|
||
(4-)5 locular, each with 16-21(-24) ovules in two rows on each placental lobe. Style 1.5-2.2 mm long at anthesis, elongating slightly after anthesis, white, rarely basally flushed pink; stigma capitate, about
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="1¼">11/4</normalizedToken>
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
|
||
the style diam., flat, cream or white, flushing pink after anthesis, surface very finely granular-papillate.
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">Fruits</emphasis>
|
||
rarely persistent, (1.9-)2.7(-3.4)
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
|
||
(1.8-)2.8(-3.9) mm, glabrous, initially dark green to reddish-green, maturing brown to grey-brown to grey-black; in all types fading with age to pale greyish-white, cupular, barrel-shaped, shortly cylindrical to hemispherical, calyx valves usually erect with the apices incurved, splits concealed by dried, erect, free portion of hypanthium.
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">Seeds</emphasis>
|
||
1.00(-1.05)
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
|
||
0.32(-0.50) mm, usually curved near apex, laterally compressed, 2-3-angled with convex to flattened faces, apex rounded to subacute; base oblique,
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="±">+/-</normalizedToken>
|
||
flattened; testa semi-glossy, orange-brown to dark brown, obovoid, oblong, oblong-ellipsoid, or cylindrical and
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="±">+/-</normalizedToken>
|
||
curved, surface coarsely reticulate. FL: (Nov-)Dec-Jan(-Mar). FT: Feb-Apr(-Aug). Chromosome Number
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">n</emphasis>
|
||
= 11II, 2
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">n</emphasis>
|
||
= 22 (see
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="de Lange, PJ" journalOrPublisher="Australian Journal of Botany" pageId="99" pageNumber="100" pagination="609 - 617" publicationUrl="10.1071/BT04060" refId="B42" refString="de Lange, PJ, Murray, BG, 2004. Chromosome numbers in Kunzea (Myrtaceae). Australian Journal of Botany 52: 609 - 617, DOI: 10.1071/BT04060" title="Chromosome numbers in Kunzea (Myrtaceae)." url="10.1071/BT04060" volume="52" year="2004">de Lange and Murray 2004</bibRefCitation>
|
||
).
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<caption pageId="21" pageNumber="22" start="Figure 4" startId="F4">
|
||
<paragraph pageId="21" pageNumber="22">
|
||
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">Figure 4.</emphasis>
|
||
Distinguishing features of
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="21" pageNumber="22" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">Kunzea ericoides</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
.
|
||
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">A</emphasis>
|
||
Flowering branchlet (ex cult. AK 289138)
|
||
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">B</emphasis>
|
||
Fruiting branchlet (ex cult. AK 289138)
|
||
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">C</emphasis>
|
||
Vegetative bud and branchlet indumentum (ex cult. AK 289138)
|
||
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">D</emphasis>
|
||
Adaxial leaf surface (ex cult. AK 289138)
|
||
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">E</emphasis>
|
||
Abaxial leaf surface (ex cult. AK 289138)
|
||
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">F</emphasis>
|
||
Adaxial leaf apex (ex cult. AK 289138)
|
||
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">G</emphasis>
|
||
Leaf margin indumentum (ex cult. AK 289138)
|
||
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">H</emphasis>
|
||
Leaf variation: (
|
||
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">H1</emphasis>
|
||
) Abel Tasman National Park, Astrolabe Roadstead, (AK 253380), (
|
||
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">H2</emphasis>
|
||
) Knuckle Hill (AK 289160)
|
||
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">I</emphasis>
|
||
Flower (top view) (AK 289138)
|
||
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">J</emphasis>
|
||
Flower and hypanthium (side view) (AK 289138)
|
||
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">K</emphasis>
|
||
Flower cross section showing anther, style and ovules (AK 289138)
|
||
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">L</emphasis>
|
||
Style and stigma (AK 289138)
|
||
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">M</emphasis>
|
||
Stamen (AK 289138)
|
||
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">N</emphasis>
|
||
Dehisced fruit (AK 253380). Scale bars: (
|
||
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">A, B, H</emphasis>
|
||
) 10 mm; (
|
||
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">C-F, I-N</emphasis>
|
||
) 1 mm; (
|
||
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">G</emphasis>
|
||
) 0.5 mm.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</caption>
|
||
<caption pageId="21" pageNumber="22" start="Figure 5" startId="F5">
|
||
<paragraph pageId="21" pageNumber="22">
|
||
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">Figure 5.</emphasis>
|
||
Scanning Electron Micrographs of
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="21" pageNumber="22" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">Kunzea ericoides</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
.
|
||
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">A-G</emphasis>
|
||
Branchlet indumentum (AK 253380; AK 289161); Seeds
|
||
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">H-K</emphasis>
|
||
(HR 3766
|
||
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">K</emphasis>
|
||
Testa surface showing reticulum (CHR 3766). Scale bars: (
|
||
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">A, C</emphasis>
|
||
) 500
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="μm">μm</normalizedToken>
|
||
; (
|
||
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">B, D, G, H, J-K</emphasis>
|
||
) 100
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="μm">μm</normalizedToken>
|
||
; (
|
||
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">E, F, I</emphasis>
|
||
) 1 mm.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</caption>
|
||
<caption pageId="21" pageNumber="22" start="Figure 6" startId="F6">
|
||
<paragraph pageId="21" pageNumber="22">
|
||
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">Figure 6.</emphasis>
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="21" pageNumber="22" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">Kunzea ericoides</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
.
|
||
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">A</emphasis>
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="21" pageNumber="22" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">Kunzea ericoides</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
trees colonising old burn, South Island, north-west Nelson, Abel Tasman National Park, Awapoto River (photo:
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">P. J. de Lange</emphasis>
|
||
)
|
||
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">B</emphasis>
|
||
Flowering decumbent plant on windswept ridge line, South Island, north-west Nelson, Wakamarama Range, Knuckle Hill (photo:
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">P. J. de Lange</emphasis>
|
||
)
|
||
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">C</emphasis>
|
||
Young
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="21" pageNumber="22" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">Kunzea ericoides</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
tree, South Island, north-west Nelson, Marahau (photo:
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">P. J. de Lange</emphasis>
|
||
)
|
||
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">D</emphasis>
|
||
Mature
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="21" pageNumber="22" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">Kunzea ericoides</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
tree, South Island, north-west Nelson, Canaan Downs (photo:
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">G. M. Crowcroft</emphasis>
|
||
)
|
||
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">E</emphasis>
|
||
Flowering branchlets, South Island, eastern Nelson, Richmond Range, Hackett Creek (photo:
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">G. M. Crowcroft</emphasis>
|
||
)
|
||
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">F</emphasis>
|
||
Bark, South Island, eastern Nelson, Richmond Range, Hackett Creek (photo:
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">G. M. Crowcroft</emphasis>
|
||
)
|
||
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">G</emphasis>
|
||
Bark, South Island, north-west Nelson, Canaan Downs (photo:
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">G. M. Crowcroft</emphasis>
|
||
)
|
||
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">H</emphasis>
|
||
Flowering branchlet showing brachyblasts, leaves and few-flowered corymbiform botrya, South Island, north-west Nelson, Golden Bay, Pupu Springs (photo:
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">M. D. Wilcox</emphasis>
|
||
)
|
||
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">I</emphasis>
|
||
Close up of flowers, South Island, north-west Nelson, Golden Bay, Bishops Saddle (photo:
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">G. M. Crowcroft</emphasis>
|
||
).
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</caption>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
<subSubSection lastPageId="22" lastPageNumber="23" pageId="21" pageNumber="22" type="representative specimens">
|
||
<paragraph pageId="21" pageNumber="22">Representative specimens</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph lastPageId="22" lastPageNumber="23" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">
|
||
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">(99 sheets seen).</emphasis>
|
||
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="22">New Zealand (South Island).</emphasis>
|
||
Wakamarama Range, Knuckle Hill, P. J. de Lange 4953, 10 Jan 2001, (AK 253376, Duplicate: AD, CHR); Whanganui Inlet, P. J. de Lange 4952, 10 Jan 2001, (AK 289162, Duplicate: AD); Wakamarama Range, Mt Burnett, South Peak, P. J. de Lange 4946, 10 Jan 2001, (AK 289159, Duplicate: AD, MEL); Aorere River, H. Talbot s.n., 15 Dec 1959, (CHR 300594); Golden Bay, Wainui Inlet, Takapou Point, P. J. de Lange 4994, 12 Jan 2001, (AK 289173, Duplicate: AD); Waitui Stream, upper Takaka, W. D. Burke s.n., 23 Nov 1979, (WELTU 13480); Kahurangi National Park, Mt Peel, near source of Trilobite Creek, P. J. de Lange 6329 & G. M. Crowcroft, 16 Jan 2001, (AK 289179); Abel Tasman National Park, Astrolabe Roadstead, Adele Island; P. J. de Lange 5001, 13 Jan 2001, (AK 253380, Duplicate: AD, P); Moutere E.D., Upper Moutere, J. F. F. Hobbs s.n., 18 Aug 2002, (NZFRI 25012); Wangapeka River Road, Rolling River, P. J. de Lange 5082, 21 Jan 2001, (AK 253381, Duplicate: AD); Hope River, Sandy Creek, P. J. de Lange 5085, 21 Jan 2001, (AK 287548, Duplicate: AD); Ngatimoti, Haycock's Hill, R. Wilson s.n., Nov 1964, (OTA 13619); Bryant Range, Hackett Creek, near Whispering Falls, P. J. de Lange 5031 & G. M. Crowcroft, 17 Jan 2001, (AK 286127, Duplicate: AD); Golden Downs, Wakefield,
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="Faulkner’s">Faulkner's</normalizedToken>
|
||
Bush, P. J. de Lange 5073, 21 Jan 2001, (AK 289193, Duplicate: AD);
|
||
<pageBreakToken pageId="22" pageNumber="23" start="start">Nelson</pageBreakToken>
|
||
Lakes National Park, Speargrass Creek, Speargrass Track, P. J. de Lange 5066, 23 Jan 2001, (AK 289190, Duplicate: AD); Owen Valley East Road, Carrol Creek, P. J. de Lange 5136, 21 Jan 2001, (AK 289201, Duplicate: AD); Buller River, near Owen Junction, P. J. de Lange 5137, 21 Jan 2001, (AK 289202, Duplicate: AD, CHR); Lower Buller Gorge, Buller River, P. J. de Lange 4787 & P. I. Knightbridge, 7 Dec 2000, (AK 288294, Duplicate: AD); D'Urville Island, north of Attempt Hill, P. J. de Lange 5053 & G. M. Crowcroft, 19 Jan 2001, (AK 289185); Pelorus Sound, Mahakipawa Inlet, Moenui, P. J. de Lange 4904, 8 Jan 2001, (AK 288400, Duplicate: AD); Mt Freeth, Queen Charlotte Sound, W. R. B. Oliver s.n., 5 Apr 1931, (WELT SP029535); Cloudy Bay, Rarangi - Port Underwood Road, top of Rarangi Zig Zag Track, P. J. de Lange 5116, 23 Jan 2001, (AK 289198, Duplicate: AD).
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
<subSubSection pageId="22" pageNumber="23" type="distribution">
|
||
<paragraph pageId="22" pageNumber="23">Distribution</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph pageId="22" pageNumber="23">
|
||
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="23">
|
||
(Fig.
|
||
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 7" captionStartId="F7" captionText="Figure 7. Distribution of Kunzea ericoides, Kunzea salterae, Kunzea sinclairii, Kunzea tenuicaulis, Kunzea toelkenii, Kunzea triregensis and Kunzea " Lottin Point "." pageId="22" pageNumber="23">7</figureCitation>
|
||
).
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
Endemic, New Zealand, South Island (sea level-1600 m a.s.l.).
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="22" pageNumber="23" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="23">Kunzea ericoides</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
is endemic to the northern South Island north of and including the Wairau and Buller River catchments.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<caption pageId="22" pageNumber="23" start="Figure 7" startId="F7">
|
||
<paragraph pageId="22" pageNumber="23">
|
||
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="23">Figure 7.</emphasis>
|
||
Distribution of
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="22" pageNumber="23" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="23">Kunzea ericoides</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
,
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="de Lange" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea salterae" order="Myrtales" pageId="22" pageNumber="23" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="salterae">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="23">Kunzea salterae</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
,
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="W. Harris" authorityYear="1987" baseAuthorityName="Kirk" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea sinclairii" order="Myrtales" pageId="22" pageNumber="23" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="sinclairii">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="23">Kunzea sinclairii</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
,
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="de Lange" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea tenuicaulis" order="Myrtales" pageId="22" pageNumber="23" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="tenuicaulis">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="23">Kunzea tenuicaulis</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
,
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="de Lange" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea toelkenii" order="Myrtales" pageId="22" pageNumber="23" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="toelkenii">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="23">Kunzea toelkenii</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
,
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="de Lange" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea triregensis" order="Myrtales" pageId="22" pageNumber="23" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="triregensis">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="23">Kunzea triregensis</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
and
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="de Lange" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea" order="Myrtales" pageId="22" pageNumber="23" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="23">Kunzea</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
"Lottin Point".
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</caption>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
<subSubSection lastPageId="23" lastPageNumber="24" pageId="22" pageNumber="23" type="recognition">
|
||
<paragraph pageId="22" pageNumber="23">Recognition.</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph pageId="22" pageNumber="23">
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="22" pageNumber="23" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="23">Kunzea ericoides</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
can be easily recognised by its glabrescent, often terminally pendent branchlets (Fig.
|
||
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 6" captionStartId="F6" captionText="Figure 6. Kunzea ericoides. A Kunzea ericoides trees colonising old burn, South Island, north-west Nelson, Abel Tasman National Park, Awapoto River (photo: P. J. de Lange) B Flowering decumbent plant on windswept ridge line, South Island, north-west Nelson, Wakamarama Range, Knuckle Hill (photo: P. J. de Lange) C Young Kunzea ericoides tree, South Island, north-west Nelson, Marahau (photo: P. J. de Lange) D Mature Kunzea ericoides tree, South Island, north-west Nelson, Canaan Downs (photo: G. M. Crowcroft) E Flowering branchlets, South Island, eastern Nelson, Richmond Range, Hackett Creek (photo: G. M. Crowcroft) F Bark, South Island, eastern Nelson, Richmond Range, Hackett Creek (photo: G. M. Crowcroft) G Bark, South Island, north-west Nelson, Canaan Downs (photo: G. M. Crowcroft) H Flowering branchlet showing brachyblasts, leaves and few-flowered corymbiform botrya, South Island, north-west Nelson, Golden Bay, Pupu Springs (photo: M. D. Wilcox) I Close up of flowers, South Island, north-west Nelson, Golden Bay, Bishops Saddle (photo: G. M. Crowcroft)." pageId="22" pageNumber="23">6D</figureCitation>
|
||
). The branchlet hairs (Fig.
|
||
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 5" captionStartId="F5" captionText="Figure 5. Scanning Electron Micrographs of Kunzea ericoides. A-G Branchlet indumentum (AK 253380; AK 289161); Seeds H-K (HR 3766 K Testa surface showing reticulum (CHR 3766). Scale bars: (A, C) 500 μm; (B, D, G, H, J-K) 100 μm; (E, F, I) 1 mm." pageId="22" pageNumber="23">5A-D, G</figureCitation>
|
||
) are deciduous, consistently divergent, short (up to 0.05 mm), and usually sparse. The leaves of
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="22" pageNumber="23" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="23">Kunzea ericoides</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
are typically bright green, linear, linear-lanceolate, to narrowly lanceolate, glabrate and mostly crowded on brachyblasts (Fig.
|
||
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 6" captionStartId="F6" captionText="Figure 6. Kunzea ericoides. A Kunzea ericoides trees colonising old burn, South Island, north-west Nelson, Abel Tasman National Park, Awapoto River (photo: P. J. de Lange) B Flowering decumbent plant on windswept ridge line, South Island, north-west Nelson, Wakamarama Range, Knuckle Hill (photo: P. J. de Lange) C Young Kunzea ericoides tree, South Island, north-west Nelson, Marahau (photo: P. J. de Lange) D Mature Kunzea ericoides tree, South Island, north-west Nelson, Canaan Downs (photo: G. M. Crowcroft) E Flowering branchlets, South Island, eastern Nelson, Richmond Range, Hackett Creek (photo: G. M. Crowcroft) F Bark, South Island, eastern Nelson, Richmond Range, Hackett Creek (photo: G. M. Crowcroft) G Bark, South Island, north-west Nelson, Canaan Downs (photo: G. M. Crowcroft) H Flowering branchlet showing brachyblasts, leaves and few-flowered corymbiform botrya, South Island, north-west Nelson, Golden Bay, Pupu Springs (photo: M. D. Wilcox) I Close up of flowers, South Island, north-west Nelson, Golden Bay, Bishops Saddle (photo: G. M. Crowcroft)." pageId="22" pageNumber="23">6H</figureCitation>
|
||
). Often the brachyblasts are widely spaced along the branchlets. The hypanthium of
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="22" pageNumber="23" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="23">Kunzea ericoides</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
is sharply obconic, glabrous (very rarely sparsely hairy), and copiously dotted with conspicuous colourless oil glands. The fruits of
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="22" pageNumber="23" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="23">Kunzea ericoides</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
are usually glabrous (very rarely sparsely hairy near the base) and are mostly cupular, barrel-shaped, or shortly cylindrical in shape (Fig.
|
||
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 4" captionStartId="F4" captionText="Figure 4. Distinguishing features of Kunzea ericoides. A Flowering branchlet (ex cult. AK 289138) B Fruiting branchlet (ex cult. AK 289138) C Vegetative bud and branchlet indumentum (ex cult. AK 289138) D Adaxial leaf surface (ex cult. AK 289138) E Abaxial leaf surface (ex cult. AK 289138) F Adaxial leaf apex (ex cult. AK 289138) G Leaf margin indumentum (ex cult. AK 289138) H Leaf variation: (H 1) Abel Tasman National Park, Astrolabe Roadstead, (AK 253380), (H 2) Knuckle Hill (AK 289160) I Flower (top view) (AK 289138) J Flower and hypanthium (side view) (AK 289138) K Flower cross section showing anther, style and ovules (AK 289138) L Style and stigma (AK 289138) M Stamen (AK 289138) N Dehisced fruit (AK 253380). Scale bars: (A, B, H) 10 mm; (C-F, I-N) 1 mm; (G) 0.5 mm." pageId="22" pageNumber="23">4N</figureCitation>
|
||
). In growth habit
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="22" pageNumber="23" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="23">Kunzea ericoides</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
varies from a trailing, decumbent shrub on ultramafic substrates to a tall tree (up to 18 m tall) but, irrespective of stature, it typically retains a somewhat spreading to slightly pendulous openly branching habit (Fig.
|
||
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 6" captionStartId="F6" captionText="Figure 6. Kunzea ericoides. A Kunzea ericoides trees colonising old burn, South Island, north-west Nelson, Abel Tasman National Park, Awapoto River (photo: P. J. de Lange) B Flowering decumbent plant on windswept ridge line, South Island, north-west Nelson, Wakamarama Range, Knuckle Hill (photo: P. J. de Lange) C Young Kunzea ericoides tree, South Island, north-west Nelson, Marahau (photo: P. J. de Lange) D Mature Kunzea ericoides tree, South Island, north-west Nelson, Canaan Downs (photo: G. M. Crowcroft) E Flowering branchlets, South Island, eastern Nelson, Richmond Range, Hackett Creek (photo: G. M. Crowcroft) F Bark, South Island, eastern Nelson, Richmond Range, Hackett Creek (photo: G. M. Crowcroft) G Bark, South Island, north-west Nelson, Canaan Downs (photo: G. M. Crowcroft) H Flowering branchlet showing brachyblasts, leaves and few-flowered corymbiform botrya, South Island, north-west Nelson, Golden Bay, Pupu Springs (photo: M. D. Wilcox) I Close up of flowers, South Island, north-west Nelson, Golden Bay, Bishops Saddle (photo: G. M. Crowcroft)." pageId="22" pageNumber="23">6B-D</figureCitation>
|
||
). Cytologically
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="22" pageNumber="23" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="23">Kunzea ericoides</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
has a similar chromosome complement to
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="de Lange et Toelken" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea amathicola" order="Myrtales" pageId="22" pageNumber="23" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="amathicola">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="23">Kunzea amathicola</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
,
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="de Lange" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea triregensis" order="Myrtales" pageId="22" pageNumber="23" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="triregensis">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="23">Kunzea triregensis</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
and
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="W. Harris" authorityYear="1987" baseAuthorityName="Kirk" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea sinclairii" order="Myrtales" pageId="22" pageNumber="23" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="sinclairii">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="23">Kunzea sinclairii</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
(
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="de Lange, PJ" journalOrPublisher="Australian Journal of Botany" pageId="99" pageNumber="100" pagination="609 - 617" publicationUrl="10.1071/BT04060" refId="B42" refString="de Lange, PJ, Murray, BG, 2004. Chromosome numbers in Kunzea (Myrtaceae). Australian Journal of Botany 52: 609 - 617, DOI: 10.1071/BT04060" title="Chromosome numbers in Kunzea (Myrtaceae)." url="10.1071/BT04060" volume="52" year="2004">de Lange and Murray 2004</bibRefCitation>
|
||
). Molecular evidence (rDNA ITS) grouped
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="22" pageNumber="23" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="23">Kunzea ericoides</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
with
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="de Lange et Toelken" authorityYear="2014" baseAuthorityName="de Lange et Toelken" baseAuthorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea linearis" order="Myrtales" pageId="22" pageNumber="23" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="linearis">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="23">Kunzea linearis</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
,
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="de Lange" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea triregensis" order="Myrtales" pageId="22" pageNumber="23" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="triregensis">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="23">Kunzea triregensis</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
,
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="de Lange et Toelken" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea robusta" order="Myrtales" pageId="22" pageNumber="23" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="robusta">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="23">Kunzea robusta</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
(all samples),
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="de Lange et Toelken" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea serotina" order="Myrtales" pageId="22" pageNumber="23" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="serotina">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="23">Kunzea serotina</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
, and
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="de Lange" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea toelkenii" order="Myrtales" pageId="22" pageNumber="23" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="toelkenii">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="23">Kunzea toelkenii</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
(Table
|
||
<tableCitation captionStart="Table 2" captionStartId="T2" captionText="Table 2. Sites of character variability within Australian and New Zealand taxa and informal entities of the Kunzea ericoides complex (from de Lange 2007)." httpUri="http://table.plazi.org/id/C5BA8EFB616C850CF6940B7296B075C0" pageId="22" pageNumber="23" tableUuid="C5BA8EFB616C850CF6940B7296B075C0">2</tableCitation>
|
||
; see also
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="de Lange, PJ" journalOrPublisher="University of Auckland, New Zealand" pageId="98" pageNumber="99" refId="B35" refString="de Lange, PJ, 2007. Biosystematics of the New Zealand Kunzea ericoides (A.Rich.) Joy Thomps. complex. University of Auckland, New Zealand" title="Biosystematics of the New Zealand Kunzea ericoides (A. Rich.) Joy Thomps. complex" year="2007">de Lange 2007</bibRefCitation>
|
||
;
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="de Lange, PJ" journalOrPublisher="Australian Systematic Botany" pageId="99" pageNumber="100" pagination="309 - 319" publicationUrl="10.1071/SB10019" refId="B45" refString="de Lange, PJ, Smissen, RD, Wagstaff, SJ, Keeling, DJ, Murray, BG, Toelken, HR, 2010. A molecular phylogeny and infrageneric classification of Kunzea (Myrtaceae) inferred from rDNA ITS and ETS sequences. Australian Systematic Botany 23: 309 - 319, DOI: 10.1071/SB10019" title="A molecular phylogeny and infrageneric classification of Kunzea (Myrtaceae) inferred from rDNA ITS and ETS sequences." url="10.1071/SB10019" volume="23" year="2010">de Lange et al. 2010</bibRefCitation>
|
||
). However, the rDNA ETS sequence of
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="22" pageNumber="23" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="23">Kunzea ericoides</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
had one unique cytosine/thiamine mix, shared with
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="de Lange et Toelken" authorityYear="2014" baseAuthorityName="de Lange et Toelken" baseAuthorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea linearis" order="Myrtales" pageId="22" pageNumber="23" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="linearis">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="23">Kunzea linearis</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
a cytosine, and, with
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="de Lange et Toelken" authorityYear="2014" baseAuthorityName="de Lange et Toelken" baseAuthorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea linearis" order="Myrtales" pageId="22" pageNumber="23" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="linearis">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="23">Kunzea linearis</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
,
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="de Lange et Toelken" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea robusta" order="Myrtales" pageId="22" pageNumber="23" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="robusta">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="23">Kunzea robusta</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
(Mt Egmont samples only),
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="de Lange" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea salterae" order="Myrtales" pageId="22" pageNumber="23" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="salterae">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="23">Kunzea salterae</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
,
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="de Lange et Toelken" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea serotina" order="Myrtales" pageId="22" pageNumber="23" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="serotina">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="23">Kunzea serotina</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
and
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="de Lange" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea toelkenii" order="Myrtales" pageId="22" pageNumber="23" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="toelkenii">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="23">Kunzea toelkenii</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
, a guanine/cytosine mix (Table
|
||
<tableCitation captionStart="Table 2" captionStartId="T2" captionText="Table 2. Sites of character variability within Australian and New Zealand taxa and informal entities of the Kunzea ericoides complex (from de Lange 2007)." httpUri="http://table.plazi.org/id/C5BA8EFB616C850CF6940B7296B075C0" pageId="22" pageNumber="23" tableUuid="C5BA8EFB616C850CF6940B7296B075C0">2</tableCitation>
|
||
; see also
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="de Lange, PJ" journalOrPublisher="University of Auckland, New Zealand" pageId="98" pageNumber="99" refId="B35" refString="de Lange, PJ, 2007. Biosystematics of the New Zealand Kunzea ericoides (A.Rich.) Joy Thomps. complex. University of Auckland, New Zealand" title="Biosystematics of the New Zealand Kunzea ericoides (A. Rich.) Joy Thomps. complex" year="2007">de Lange 2007</bibRefCitation>
|
||
).
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph pageId="23" pageNumber="24">
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="23" pageNumber="24" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="24">
|
||
<pageBreakToken pageId="23" pageNumber="24" start="start">Kunzea</pageBreakToken>
|
||
ericoides
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
is sympatric with
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="de Lange et Toelken" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea amathicola" order="Myrtales" pageId="23" pageNumber="24" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="amathicola">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="24">Kunzea amathicola</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
,
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="de Lange et Toelken" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea robusta" order="Myrtales" pageId="23" pageNumber="24" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="robusta">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="24">Kunzea robusta</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
and
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="de Lange et Toelken" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea serotina" order="Myrtales" pageId="23" pageNumber="24" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="serotina">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="24">Kunzea serotina</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
and also forms hybrids with them. Of the three,
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="23" pageNumber="24" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="24">Kunzea ericoides</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
is most frequently sympatric with
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="de Lange et Toelken" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea robusta" order="Myrtales" pageId="23" pageNumber="24" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="robusta">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="24">Kunzea robusta</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
. Both species naturally meet in the Marlborough Sounds where
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="de Lange et Toelken" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea robusta" order="Myrtales" pageId="23" pageNumber="24" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="robusta">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="24">Kunzea robusta</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
, though mainly coastal, is locally common (another occurrence at Totaranui, Abel Tasman National Park, results from the naturalisation from plantings of
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="de Lange et Toelken" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea robusta" order="Myrtales" pageId="23" pageNumber="24" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="robusta">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="24">Kunzea robusta</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
within a camp ground). On the south-eastern coast of
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="D’Urville">D'Urville</normalizedToken>
|
||
Island and from about the Tory Channel south toward Rarangi, both species are abundant. The form of
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="de Lange et Toelken" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea robusta" order="Myrtales" pageId="23" pageNumber="24" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="robusta">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="24">Kunzea robusta</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
present in the north-eastern South Island is easily distinguished from
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="23" pageNumber="24" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="24">Kunzea ericoides</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
as it has extremely hairy branchlets, with the long, silky, antrorse-appressed hairs easily seen by the naked eye or with a 10
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
|
||
hand lens. Aside from branchlet hairs both species have different foliage colour and leaf shape;
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="de Lange et Toelken" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea robusta" order="Myrtales" pageId="23" pageNumber="24" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="robusta">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="24">Kunzea robusta</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
mostly has dark green leaves that are oblanceolate, broadly oblanceolate to broadly lanceolate with irregularly long sericeous hairs on the margins.
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="23" pageNumber="24" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="24">Kunzea ericoides</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
has bright green, linear-lanceolate leaves whose margins are sparsely hairy trending toward glabrous (Fig.
|
||
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 4" captionStartId="F4" captionText="Figure 4. Distinguishing features of Kunzea ericoides. A Flowering branchlet (ex cult. AK 289138) B Fruiting branchlet (ex cult. AK 289138) C Vegetative bud and branchlet indumentum (ex cult. AK 289138) D Adaxial leaf surface (ex cult. AK 289138) E Abaxial leaf surface (ex cult. AK 289138) F Adaxial leaf apex (ex cult. AK 289138) G Leaf margin indumentum (ex cult. AK 289138) H Leaf variation: (H 1) Abel Tasman National Park, Astrolabe Roadstead, (AK 253380), (H 2) Knuckle Hill (AK 289160) I Flower (top view) (AK 289138) J Flower and hypanthium (side view) (AK 289138) K Flower cross section showing anther, style and ovules (AK 289138) L Style and stigma (AK 289138) M Stamen (AK 289138) N Dehisced fruit (AK 253380). Scale bars: (A, B, H) 10 mm; (C-F, I-N) 1 mm; (G) 0.5 mm." pageId="23" pageNumber="24">4D-H</figureCitation>
|
||
). The hypanthia of both species also differ. In
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="de Lange et Toelken" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea robusta" order="Myrtales" pageId="23" pageNumber="24" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="robusta">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="24">Kunzea robusta</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
the hypanthium is broadly obconic to almost turbinate with the external faces copiously covered in short, antrorse-appressed, sericeous hairs. In
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="23" pageNumber="24" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="24">Kunzea ericoides</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
the hypanthium is glabrescent to completely glabrous, and sharply obconic. The fruits show much the same differences,
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="de Lange et Toelken" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea robusta" order="Myrtales" pageId="23" pageNumber="24" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="robusta">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="24">Kunzea robusta</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
being broadly obconic to turbinate with the external faces distinctly hairy and
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="23" pageNumber="24" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="24">Kunzea ericoides</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
mostly cupular, barrel-shaped to shortly cylindrical or sometimes hemispherical and glabrous.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph pageId="23" pageNumber="24">
|
||
In the north-western part of its range
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="23" pageNumber="24" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="24">Kunzea ericoides</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
is frequently sympatric with
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="de Lange et Toelken" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea amathicola" order="Myrtales" pageId="23" pageNumber="24" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="amathicola">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="24">Kunzea amathicola</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
following a line running from the Aorere River west to the Paturau River. Again, both species are easily distinguished due to the very different branchlet indumentum.
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="de Lange et Toelken" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea amathicola" order="Myrtales" pageId="23" pageNumber="24" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="amathicola">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="24">Kunzea amathicola</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
is distinctly more hairy, with the branchlet hairs long, sericeous, and antrorse-appressed, a marked contrast to the glabrescent branchlets, and short divergent hairs diagnostic of
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="23" pageNumber="24" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="24">Kunzea ericoides</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
. The leaves, inflorescence type, flowers and fruits of both species are also very different and further distinctions are given in more detail under
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="de Lange et Toelken" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea amathicola" order="Myrtales" pageId="23" pageNumber="24" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="amathicola">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="24">Kunzea amathicola</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
and in Table
|
||
<tableCitation captionStart="Table 1" captionStartId="T1" captionText="Table 1. Distinguishing features of New Zealand Kunzea." httpUri="http://table.plazi.org/id/3FB618715E68892343EC557C41B7D949" pageId="23" pageNumber="24" tableUuid="3FB618715E68892343EC557C41B7D949">1</tableCitation>
|
||
. However, two critical characters are briefly mentioned here. The inflorescences of
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="de Lange et Toelken" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea amathicola" order="Myrtales" pageId="23" pageNumber="24" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="amathicola">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="24">Kunzea amathicola</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
are always elongate botrya, while those of
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="23" pageNumber="24" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="24">Kunzea ericoides</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
are usually corymbiform (Fig.
|
||
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 4" captionStartId="F4" captionText="Figure 4. Distinguishing features of Kunzea ericoides. A Flowering branchlet (ex cult. AK 289138) B Fruiting branchlet (ex cult. AK 289138) C Vegetative bud and branchlet indumentum (ex cult. AK 289138) D Adaxial leaf surface (ex cult. AK 289138) E Abaxial leaf surface (ex cult. AK 289138) F Adaxial leaf apex (ex cult. AK 289138) G Leaf margin indumentum (ex cult. AK 289138) H Leaf variation: (H 1) Abel Tasman National Park, Astrolabe Roadstead, (AK 253380), (H 2) Knuckle Hill (AK 289160) I Flower (top view) (AK 289138) J Flower and hypanthium (side view) (AK 289138) K Flower cross section showing anther, style and ovules (AK 289138) L Style and stigma (AK 289138) M Stamen (AK 289138) N Dehisced fruit (AK 253380). Scale bars: (A, B, H) 10 mm; (C-F, I-N) 1 mm; (G) 0.5 mm." pageId="23" pageNumber="24">4A</figureCitation>
|
||
) though mixtures of corymbiform and shortly elongate botrya are sometimes produced in shaded, stressed or late summer flowering specimens. The pherophylls of
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="23" pageNumber="24" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="24">Kunzea ericoides</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
are always in mixtures of squamiform and foliose, with the foliose ones ranging from elliptic, lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, they are never oblong to oblong-obovate like those of
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="de Lange et Toelken" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea amathicola" order="Myrtales" pageId="23" pageNumber="24" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="amathicola">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="24">Kunzea amathicola</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
. The other major difference is that the leaf margins of
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="de Lange et Toelken" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea amathicola" order="Myrtales" pageId="23" pageNumber="24" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="amathicola">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="24">Kunzea amathicola</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
are covered in a conspicuous thick, continuous band of long antrorse-appressed, sericeous hairs which reaches the leaf apex. In
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="23" pageNumber="24" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="24">Kunzea ericoides</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
although marginal hairs are usually present these are hardly conspicuous, tend to be shed as the leaf matures, and they normally form a rather thin, often discontinuous band which does not reach the leaf apex (Fig.
|
||
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 4" captionStartId="F4" captionText="Figure 4. Distinguishing features of Kunzea ericoides. A Flowering branchlet (ex cult. AK 289138) B Fruiting branchlet (ex cult. AK 289138) C Vegetative bud and branchlet indumentum (ex cult. AK 289138) D Adaxial leaf surface (ex cult. AK 289138) E Abaxial leaf surface (ex cult. AK 289138) F Adaxial leaf apex (ex cult. AK 289138) G Leaf margin indumentum (ex cult. AK 289138) H Leaf variation: (H 1) Abel Tasman National Park, Astrolabe Roadstead, (AK 253380), (H 2) Knuckle Hill (AK 289160) I Flower (top view) (AK 289138) J Flower and hypanthium (side view) (AK 289138) K Flower cross section showing anther, style and ovules (AK 289138) L Style and stigma (AK 289138) M Stamen (AK 289138) N Dehisced fruit (AK 253380). Scale bars: (A, B, H) 10 mm; (C-F, I-N) 1 mm; (G) 0.5 mm." pageId="23" pageNumber="24">4F-G</figureCitation>
|
||
).
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph pageId="23" pageNumber="24">
|
||
Along the Buller River, at the northern end of Nelson Lakes and in the upper Wairau,
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="23" pageNumber="24" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="24">Kunzea ericoides</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
is occasionally syntopic with
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="de Lange et Toelken" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea serotina" order="Myrtales" pageId="23" pageNumber="24" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="serotina">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="24">Kunzea serotina</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
. Both species are easily distinguished (Table
|
||
<tableCitation captionStart="Table 1" captionStartId="T1" captionText="Table 1. Distinguishing features of New Zealand Kunzea." httpUri="http://table.plazi.org/id/3FB618715E68892343EC557C41B7D949" pageId="23" pageNumber="24" tableUuid="3FB618715E68892343EC557C41B7D949">1</tableCitation>
|
||
), especially as
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="de Lange et Toelken" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea serotina" order="Myrtales" pageId="23" pageNumber="24" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="serotina">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="24">Kunzea serotina</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
has such a distinctive bark type and a pyramidal, columnar, growth habit with obliquely ascending, fastigiate branches. Further, the usual leaf shape of
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="de Lange et Toelken" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea serotina" order="Myrtales" pageId="23" pageNumber="24" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="serotina">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="24">Kunzea serotina</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
is shortly linear-oblanceolate to obovate rather than the longer linear-lanceolate condition of
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="23" pageNumber="24" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="24">Kunzea ericoides</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
. However, on the ultramafics of the Red Hills and on Mt Dun,
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="23" pageNumber="24" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="24">Kunzea ericoides</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
tends to be more stunted and in these forms the leaves tend to be half their usual size. While this condition does not appear to have a genetic basis, field distinction can become confusing, especially when such forms grow amongst similarly dwarfed
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="de Lange et Toelken" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea serotina" order="Myrtales" pageId="23" pageNumber="24" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="serotina">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="24">Kunzea serotina</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
specimens. In these situations the branchlet hairs are diagnostic: in
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="de Lange et Toelken" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea serotina" order="Myrtales" pageId="23" pageNumber="24" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="serotina">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="24">Kunzea serotina</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
they are copious, up to 0.08 mm long with curved or curled apices, whereas the branchlets of
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="23" pageNumber="24" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="24">Kunzea ericoides</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
are glabrescent, with the hairs up to 0.05 mm long and with straight apices (Fig.
|
||
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 5" captionStartId="F5" captionText="Figure 5. Scanning Electron Micrographs of Kunzea ericoides. A-G Branchlet indumentum (AK 253380; AK 289161); Seeds H-K (HR 3766 K Testa surface showing reticulum (CHR 3766). Scale bars: (A, C) 500 μm; (B, D, G, H, J-K) 100 μm; (E, F, I) 1 mm." pageId="23" pageNumber="24">5B, D</figureCitation>
|
||
). Flowering material readily separates both species because
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="de Lange et Toelken" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea serotina" order="Myrtales" pageId="23" pageNumber="24" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="serotina">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="24">Kunzea serotina</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
has deciduous, mostly spathulate to spathulate-orbicular, rather than persistent, elliptic, lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate pherophylls, and the oil glands in the petals are yellow, rather than
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="±">+/-</normalizedToken>
|
||
colourless.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
<subSubSection pageId="24" pageNumber="25" type="ecology">
|
||
<paragraph pageId="24" pageNumber="25">
|
||
<pageBreakToken pageId="24" pageNumber="25" start="start">Ecology</pageBreakToken>
|
||
.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph pageId="24" pageNumber="25">
|
||
Although much has been written about the ecology of
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="24" pageNumber="25" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">Kunzea ericoides</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">sens. lat.</emphasis>
|
||
(
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="Burrell, JP" journalOrPublisher="New Zealand Journal of Botany" pageId="97" pageNumber="98" pagination="3 - 16" publicationUrl="10.1080/0028825X.1965.10428708" refId="B23" refString="Burrell, JP, 1965. Ecology of Leptospermum in Otago. New Zealand Journal of Botany 3: 3 - 16, DOI: 10.1080/0028825X.1965.10428708" title="Ecology of Leptospermum in Otago." url="10.1080/0028825X.1965.10428708" volume="3" year="1965">Burrell 1965</bibRefCitation>
|
||
;
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="Burrows, CJ" journalOrPublisher="Mauri Ora" pageId="97" pageNumber="98" pagination="5 - 12" refId="B22" refString="Burrows, CJ, 1973. The ecological niches of Leptospermum scoparium and L. ericoides (Angiospermae: Myrtaceae). Mauri Ora 1: 5 - 12" title="The ecological niches of Leptospermum scoparium and L. ericoides (Angiospermae: Myrtaceae)." volume="1" year="1973">Burrows 1973</bibRefCitation>
|
||
;
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="Wardle, P" journalOrPublisher="Cambridge University Press, Melbourne" pageId="104" pageNumber="105" refId="B131" refString="Wardle, P, 1991. Vegetation of New Zealand. Cambridge University Press, Melbourne" title="Vegetation of New Zealand" year="1991">Wardle 1991</bibRefCitation>
|
||
;
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="Smale, MC" journalOrPublisher="New Zealand Journal of Botany" pageId="103" pageNumber="104" pagination="441 - 452" publicationUrl="10.1080/0028825X.1994.10412931" refId="B117" refString="Smale, MC, 1994. Structure and dynamics of kanuka (Kunzea ericoides var. ericoides) heaths on sand dunes in Bay of Plenty, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 32: 441 - 452, DOI: 10.1080/0028825X.1994.10412931" title="Structure and dynamics of kanuka (Kunzea ericoides var. ericoides) heaths on sand dunes in Bay of Plenty, New Zealand." url="10.1080/0028825X.1994.10412931" volume="32" year="1994">Smale 1994</bibRefCitation>
|
||
;
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="Smale, MC" journalOrPublisher="New Zealand Journal of Ecology" pageId="103" pageNumber="104" pagination="131 - 141" publicationUrl="http://nzes-nzje.grdev.co.nz/abstract.php?volume_issue=j19_2&pdf_filename=NZJEcol19_2_131.pdf&uniqueID=1973" refId="B118" refString="Smale, MC, Hall, GMJ, Gardner, RO, 1995. Dynamics of Kanuka (Kunzea ericoides) forest on south Kaipara spit, New Zealand, and the impact of fallow deer (Dama dama). New Zealand Journal of Ecology 19: 131 - 141, http://nzes-nzje.grdev.co.nz/abstract.php?volume_issue=j19_2&pdf_filename=NZJEcol19_2_131.pdf&uniqueID=1973" title="Dynamics of Kanuka (Kunzea ericoides) forest on south Kaipara spit, New Zealand, and the impact of fallow deer (Dama dama)." url="http://nzes-nzje.grdev.co.nz/abstract.php?volume_issue=j19_2&pdf_filename=NZJEcol19_2_131.pdf&uniqueID=1973" volume="19" year="1995">Smale et al. 1995</bibRefCitation>
|
||
) most of that information is based on
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="de Lange et Toelken" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea amathicola" order="Myrtales" pageId="24" pageNumber="25" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="amathicola">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">Kunzea amathicola</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
,
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="de Lange et Toelken" authorityYear="2014" baseAuthorityName="de Lange et Toelken" baseAuthorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea linearis" order="Myrtales" pageId="24" pageNumber="25" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="linearis">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">Kunzea linearis</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
,
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="de Lange et Toelken" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea robusta" order="Myrtales" pageId="24" pageNumber="25" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="robusta">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">Kunzea robusta</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
,
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="de Lange" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea salterae" order="Myrtales" pageId="24" pageNumber="25" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="salterae">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">Kunzea salterae</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
,
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="de Lange et Toelken" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea serotina" order="Myrtales" pageId="24" pageNumber="25" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="serotina">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">Kunzea serotina</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
, and
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="de Lange" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea toelkenii" order="Myrtales" pageId="24" pageNumber="25" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="toelkenii">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">Kunzea toelkenii</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
. My observations suggest that
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="24" pageNumber="25" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">Kunzea ericoides</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
is ecologically most similar to
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="de Lange et Toelken" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea robusta" order="Myrtales" pageId="24" pageNumber="25" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="robusta">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">Kunzea robusta</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
in that it can be found in a wide variety of habitats from early stage seral shrubland (Fig.
|
||
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 6" captionStartId="F6" captionText="Figure 6. Kunzea ericoides. A Kunzea ericoides trees colonising old burn, South Island, north-west Nelson, Abel Tasman National Park, Awapoto River (photo: P. J. de Lange) B Flowering decumbent plant on windswept ridge line, South Island, north-west Nelson, Wakamarama Range, Knuckle Hill (photo: P. J. de Lange) C Young Kunzea ericoides tree, South Island, north-west Nelson, Marahau (photo: P. J. de Lange) D Mature Kunzea ericoides tree, South Island, north-west Nelson, Canaan Downs (photo: G. M. Crowcroft) E Flowering branchlets, South Island, eastern Nelson, Richmond Range, Hackett Creek (photo: G. M. Crowcroft) F Bark, South Island, eastern Nelson, Richmond Range, Hackett Creek (photo: G. M. Crowcroft) G Bark, South Island, north-west Nelson, Canaan Downs (photo: G. M. Crowcroft) H Flowering branchlet showing brachyblasts, leaves and few-flowered corymbiform botrya, South Island, north-west Nelson, Golden Bay, Pupu Springs (photo: M. D. Wilcox) I Close up of flowers, South Island, north-west Nelson, Golden Bay, Bishops Saddle (photo: G. M. Crowcroft)." pageId="24" pageNumber="25">6A</figureCitation>
|
||
) through to tall forest, and it has a similar growth habit. However, it attains a much higher altitudinal limit than
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="de Lange et Toelken" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea robusta" order="Myrtales" pageId="24" pageNumber="25" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="robusta">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">Kunzea robusta</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
, having been collected during this study at 1600 m a.s.l. on the northern slopes of Mt Peel, Kahurangi National Park, north-west Nelson. In montane areas it is frequently found within north-facing canopy gaps developed within montane black beech (
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="Heenan & Smissen" authorityYear="2013" baseAuthorityName="Hook. f." class="Magnoliopsida" family="Nothofagaceae" genus="Fuscospora" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Fuscospora solandri" order="Fagales" pageId="24" pageNumber="25" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="solandri">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">Fuscospora solandri</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
(Hook.f.) Heenan et Smissen) and mountain beech (
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="Heenan & Smissen" authorityYear="2013" baseAuthorityName="Hook. f." class="Magnoliopsida" family="Nothofagaceae" genus="Fuscospora" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Fuscospora cliffortioides" order="Fagales" pageId="24" pageNumber="25" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="cliffortioides">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">Fuscospora cliffortioides</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
(Hook.f.) Heenan et Smissen) forests, often close to the upper tree limit for these species in the Richmond Range and parts of north-west Nelson. The species is also commonly encountered in coastal forest, though rarely on sand dunes, and it can be a conspicuous tree of lowland areas, especially along river flats and on outwash gravels within the Waimea Plain and on sections of the northern bank of the Buller River.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph pageId="24" pageNumber="25">
|
||
No obvious substrate requirement is evident. It appears to avoid permanently waterlogged soils and peat and it is scarce from wetlands, though it may at times be common in the vegetation bordering these habitats. Free draining soils and recent alluvium is commonly colonised, as is open ground within lowland to upper montane forests. On the extensive karstfield of north-west Nelson
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="24" pageNumber="25" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">Kunzea ericoides</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
is often prominent, especially in places where there has been a history of logging, mining, farming or frequent fires.
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="24" pageNumber="25" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">Kunzea ericoides</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
is also a common component of the ultramafic areas of
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="D’Urville">D'Urville</normalizedToken>
|
||
Island, Mt Dun, the Red Hills and upper Takaka.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph pageId="24" pageNumber="25">
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="24" pageNumber="25" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">Kunzea ericoides</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
is an important primary tree coloniser of formerly cleared ground in many parts of its range. In these situations, perhaps more than any other, the dense leaf litter produced by the often closely growing trees is ideal for a wide range of terrestrial orchids (especially of the genera
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="R.Brown" authorityYear="1810" class="Liliopsida" family="Orchidaceae" genus="Acianthus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Acianthus" order="Asparagales" pageId="24" pageNumber="25" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">Acianthus</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
R.Br.,
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Liliopsida" family="Orchidaceae" genus="Caladenia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Caladenia" order="Asparagales" pageId="24" pageNumber="25" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">Caladenia</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
R.Br.,
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Monocotyledoneae" family="Orchidaceae" genus="Corybas" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Corybas" order="Microspermae" pageId="24" pageNumber="25" phylum="Angiospermae" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">Corybas</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
Salisb.,
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Monocotyledoneae" family="Orchidaceae" genus="Gastrodia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Gastrodia" order="Microspermae" pageId="24" pageNumber="25" phylum="Angiospermae" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">Gastrodia</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
R.Br., and
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Liliopsida" family="Orchidaceae" genus="Pterostylis" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Pterostylis" order="Asparagales" pageId="24" pageNumber="25" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">Pterostylis</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
R.Br.), and fungi (see
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="McKenzie, EHC" journalOrPublisher="New Zealand Journal of Botany" pageId="101" pageNumber="102" pagination="293 - 335" publicationUrl="10.1080/0028825X.2006.9513025" refId="B85" refString="McKenzie, EHC, Johnston, PR, Buchanan, PK, 2006. Checklist of fungi on tea tree (Kunzea and Leptospermum species) in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 44: 293 - 335, DOI: 10.1080/0028825X.2006.9513025" title="Checklist of fungi on tea tree (Kunzea and Leptospermum species) in New Zealand." url="10.1080/0028825X.2006.9513025" volume="44" year="2006">McKenzie et al. 2006</bibRefCitation>
|
||
), while the bark is often colonised by mosses such as
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Bryopsida" family="Orthotrichaceae" genus="Macromitrium" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Macromitrium" order="Isobryales" pageId="24" pageNumber="25" phylum="Bryophyta" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">Macromitrium</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
Brid. spp.,
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Bryopsida" family="Cryphaeaceae" genus="Cryphaea" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Cryphaea tenella" order="Hypnales" pageId="24" pageNumber="25" phylum="Bryophyta" rank="species" species="tenella">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">Cryphaea tenella</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="Müll">Muell</normalizedToken>
|
||
.Hal.,
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="Mitten" authorityYear="1882" baseAuthorityName="Hampe" class="Bryopsida" family="Daltoniaceae" genus="Distichophyllum" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Distichophyllum pulchellum" order="Hookeriales" pageId="24" pageNumber="25" phylum="Bryophyta" rank="species" species="pulchellum">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">Distichophyllum pulchellum</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
(Hampe) Mitt., and
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="Dixon" authorityYear="1927" baseAuthorityName="Schwaegr." class="Bryopsida" family="Meteoriaceae" genus="Weymouthia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Weymouthia cochlearifolia" order="Isobryales" pageId="24" pageNumber="25" phylum="Bryophyta" rank="species" species="cochlearifolia">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">Weymouthia cochlearifolia</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
(
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="Schwägr">Schwaegr</normalizedToken>
|
||
.) Dix, and by liverworts of the genera
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="Raddi" authorityYear="1818" class="Hepaticae" family="Frullaniaceae" genus="Frullania" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Frullania" order="Jungermanniales" pageId="24" pageNumber="25" phylum="Bryophyta" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">Frullania</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
Raddi,
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="M.-A.Libert" authorityYear="1820" class="Hepaticae" family="Lejeuneaceae" genus="Lejeunea" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Lejeunea" order="Jungermanniales" pageId="24" pageNumber="25" phylum="Bryophyta" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">Lejeunea</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
Lib. and
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Hepaticae" family="Metzgeriaceae" genus="Metzgeria" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Metzgeria" order="Metzgeriales" pageId="24" pageNumber="25" phylum="Bryophyta" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">Metzgeria</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
Raddi.
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="24" pageNumber="25" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">Kunzea ericoides</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
bark also supports a diverse array of lichens in the following genera;
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Lecanoromycetes" family="Coccocarpiaceae" genus="Coccocarpia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Fungi" lsidName="Coccocarpia" order="Lecanorales" pageId="24" pageNumber="25" phylum="Ascomycota" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">Coccocarpia</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
Pers.,
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="Trevisan" authorityYear="1868" baseAuthorityName="Ach." class="Magnoliopsida" family="Physciaceae" genus="Heterodermia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Heterodermia" order="Caryophyllales" pageId="24" pageNumber="25" phylum="Magnoliophyta" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">Heterodermia</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
Trevis.,
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="Delise ex Bory" authorityYear="1828" class="Lecanoromycetes" family="Pannariaceae" genus="Pannaria" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Fungi" lsidName="Pannaria" order="Lecanorales" pageId="24" pageNumber="25" phylum="Ascomycota" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">Pannaria</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
Delise ex Bory,
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="A.Massalongo" authorityYear="1860" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Parmeliaceae" genus="Parmotrema" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Parmotrema" order="Malpighiales" pageId="24" pageNumber="25" phylum="Magnoliophyta" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">Parmotrema</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
A.Massal.,
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Lobariaceae" genus="Pseudocyphellaria" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Pseudocyphellaria" order="Gentianales" pageId="24" pageNumber="25" phylum="Magnoliophyta" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">Pseudocyphellaria</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
Vain.,
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Lobariaceae" genus="Sticta" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Sticta" order="Gentianales" pageId="24" pageNumber="25" phylum="Magnoliophyta" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">Sticta</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
(Schreb.) Ach. and
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Ramalinaceae" genus="Ramalina" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Ramalina" order="Ranunculales" pageId="24" pageNumber="25" phylum="Magnoliophyta" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">Ramalina</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
Ach. The upper branches and branchlets are also frequently parasitised by the dwarf mistletoe
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Dicotyledoneae" family="Viscaceae" genus="Korthalsella" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Korthalsella salicornioides" order="Santalales" pageId="24" pageNumber="25" phylum="Angiospermae" rank="species" species="salicornioides">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">Korthalsella salicornioides</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
(A.Cunn.) Tiegh. and, less commonly, green mistletoe (
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Loranthaceae" genus="Ileostylus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Ileostylus micranthus" order="Santalales" pageId="24" pageNumber="25" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="micranthus">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">Ileostylus micranthus</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
(Hook.f.) Tiegh.).
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="24" pageNumber="25" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">Kunzea ericoides</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
-dominated shrubland and forest also provides an important and at times critical habitat for a range of geckos in the endemic genera
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="Nielsen, Bauer, Jackman, Hitchmough & Daugherty" authorityYear="2011" class="Reptilia" family="Diplodactylidae" genus="Mokopirirakau" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Mokopirirakau" order="Squamata" pageId="24" pageNumber="25" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">Mokopirirakau</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
Nielsen et al. 2011,
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Reptilia" family="Diplodactylidae" genus="Naultinus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Naultinus" order="Squamata" pageId="24" pageNumber="25" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">Naultinus</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
(Gray, 1842), and
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Pinopsida" family="Araucariaceae" genus="Woodworthia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Woodworthia" order="Pinales" pageId="24" pageNumber="25" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">Woodworthia</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
Garman 1901 (R. Hitchmough pers. comm.).
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
<subSubSection lastPageId="26" lastPageNumber="27" pageId="24" pageNumber="25" type="hybridism">
|
||
<paragraph pageId="24" pageNumber="25">Hybridism.</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph pageId="25" pageNumber="26">
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="25" pageNumber="26" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="26">
|
||
<pageBreakToken pageId="25" pageNumber="26" start="start">Kunzea</pageBreakToken>
|
||
ericoides
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
naturally hybridises only with
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="de Lange et Toelken" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea amathicola" order="Myrtales" pageId="25" pageNumber="26" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="amathicola">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="26">Kunzea amathicola</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
,
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="de Lange et Toelken" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea robusta" order="Myrtales" pageId="25" pageNumber="26" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="robusta">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="26">Kunzea robusta</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
and
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="de Lange et Toelken" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea serotina" order="Myrtales" pageId="25" pageNumber="26" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="serotina">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="26">Kunzea serotina</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
. The most common of these hybrids is
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="25" pageNumber="26" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="26">Kunzea ericoides</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="de Lange et Toelken" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea robusta" order="Myrtales" pageId="25" pageNumber="26" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="robusta">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="26">Kunzea robusta</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
, which is abundant on the south-eastern side of
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="D’Urville">D'Urville</normalizedToken>
|
||
Island (especially around Katherine Bay), and along the eastern side of the Marlborough Sounds, particularly east of Picton and south of the Tory Channel to about Rarangi. These areas comprise some of the first sites of European settlement in New Zealand, prior to which they were once heavily populated by Maori (
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="Buick, TL" journalOrPublisher="Capper Press, Christchurch" pageId="97" pageNumber="98" refId="B19" refString="Buick, TL, 1976. Old Marlborough. Capper Press, Christchurch" title="Old Marlborough" year="1976">Buick 1976</bibRefCitation>
|
||
;
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="de Lange, PJ" journalOrPublisher="Australian Systematic Botany" pageId="99" pageNumber="100" pagination="117 - 131" publicationUrl="10.1071/SB04043" refId="B44" refString="de Lange, PJ, Datson, PM, Murray, BG, Toelken, HR, 2005. Hybridism in the Kunzea ericoides complex (Myrtaceae): an analysis of artificial crosses. Australian Systematic Botany 18: 117 - 131, DOI: 10.1071/SB04043" title="Hybridism in the Kunzea ericoides complex (Myrtaceae): an analysis of artificial crosses." url="10.1071/SB04043" volume="18" year="2005">de Lange et al. 2005</bibRefCitation>
|
||
). Both cultures extensively modified these landscapes and even in modern times much of this area has been repeatedly burned. These are ideal conditions for hybridism, and in the case of both
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="25" pageNumber="26" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="26">Kunzea ericoides</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
and
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="de Lange et Toelken" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea robusta" order="Myrtales" pageId="25" pageNumber="26" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="robusta">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="26">Kunzea robusta</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
it has helped create and maintain an extensive introgressed hybrid swarm.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph pageId="25" pageNumber="26">
|
||
Recognition of
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="25" pageNumber="26" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="26">Kunzea ericoides</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="de Lange et Toelken" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea robusta" order="Myrtales" pageId="25" pageNumber="26" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="robusta">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="26">Kunzea robusta</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
in the field and in the herbarium is generally easy because both species have such different branchlet hairs. Hybrid plants can usually be recognised by the presence of mixtures of long, silky, antrorse-appressed and very short divergent hairs. Further,
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="25" pageNumber="26" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="26">Kunzea ericoides</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="de Lange et Toelken" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea robusta" order="Myrtales" pageId="25" pageNumber="26" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="robusta">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="26">Kunzea robusta</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
hybrids often have a distinctly pale glaucous sheen to their usually yellow-green leaves. Similar plants were produced in the experimental F1 crosses
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="25" pageNumber="26" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="26">Kunzea ericoides</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
♀
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="de Lange et Toelken" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea robusta" order="Myrtales" pageId="25" pageNumber="26" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="robusta">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="26">Kunzea robusta</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
♂ and
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="de Lange et Toelken" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea robusta" order="Myrtales" pageId="25" pageNumber="26" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="robusta">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="26">Kunzea robusta</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
♀
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="25" pageNumber="26" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="26">Kunzea ericoides</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
♂ and these proved to be fully fertile (
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="de Lange, PJ" journalOrPublisher="Australian Systematic Botany" pageId="99" pageNumber="100" pagination="117 - 131" publicationUrl="10.1071/SB04043" refId="B44" refString="de Lange, PJ, Datson, PM, Murray, BG, Toelken, HR, 2005. Hybridism in the Kunzea ericoides complex (Myrtaceae): an analysis of artificial crosses. Australian Systematic Botany 18: 117 - 131, DOI: 10.1071/SB04043" title="Hybridism in the Kunzea ericoides complex (Myrtaceae): an analysis of artificial crosses." url="10.1071/SB04043" volume="18" year="2005">de Lange et al. 2005</bibRefCitation>
|
||
). In most instances the hybrid can be easily recognised but because hybrids are fully fertile, an often bewildering array of introgressants can be found in sites of prolonged disturbance, in some cases almost to the exclusion of either parent. Recognition of hybrids within such populations can at times be difficult. For example, in those hybrids trending toward
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="25" pageNumber="26" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="26">Kunzea ericoides</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
there is a progressive loss of the long, antrorse-appressed sericeous branchlet hairs diagnostic of
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="de Lange et Toelken" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea robusta" order="Myrtales" pageId="25" pageNumber="26" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="robusta">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="26">Kunzea robusta</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
. In some examples where the branchlet hairs are virtually dominated by short divergent hairs, a hybrid ancestry may still be elucidated by diligent searching, particularly along the branchlet axis immediately opposite active leaf buds and emergent leaves where a few of the longer, antrorse-appressed sericeous type diagnostic of
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="de Lange et Toelken" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea robusta" order="Myrtales" pageId="25" pageNumber="26" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="robusta">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="26">Kunzea robusta</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
are usually retained as sparse patches. In pure
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="25" pageNumber="26" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="26">Kunzea ericoides</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
these are mostly all soon shed. One of the last
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="de Lange et Toelken" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea robusta" order="Myrtales" pageId="25" pageNumber="26" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="robusta">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="26">Kunzea robusta</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
traits to be lost is the presence of antrorse-appressed, silky hairs on the external surface of the hypanthia, allowing the hybrid origin of specimens in all other respects matching
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="25" pageNumber="26" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="26">Kunzea ericoides</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
to still be elucidated. Branchlet hairs, or rather their relative abundance also serves to help distinguish introgressants trending toward pure
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="de Lange et Toelken" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea robusta" order="Myrtales" pageId="25" pageNumber="26" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="robusta">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="26">Kunzea robusta</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
such that apparently pure specimens of
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="de Lange et Toelken" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea robusta" order="Myrtales" pageId="25" pageNumber="26" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="robusta">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="26">Kunzea robusta</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
prove on careful examination of the branchlets to be glabrescent and completely dominated by short, divergent hairs. For
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="25" pageNumber="26" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="26">Kunzea ericoides</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
at least, the branchlet hairs seem to be a long-lived trait traceable in any hybrid swarm it may form. In north-west Nelson from about Golden Bay and the Whanganui inlet north,
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="25" pageNumber="26" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="26">Kunzea ericoides</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
and
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="de Lange et Toelken" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea amathicola" order="Myrtales" pageId="25" pageNumber="26" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="amathicola">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="26">Kunzea amathicola</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
are commonly syntopic and hybrids are frequent in the more heavily modified lowlands and roadsides of this area. Like the
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="25" pageNumber="26" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="26">Kunzea ericoides</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="de Lange et Toelken" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea robusta" order="Myrtales" pageId="25" pageNumber="26" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="robusta">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="26">Kunzea robusta</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
hybrid, the branchlet indumentum enables recognition because it comprises mixtures of both hair types. The inflorescences of
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="de Lange et Toelken" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea amathicola" order="Myrtales" pageId="25" pageNumber="26" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="amathicola">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="26">Kunzea amathicola</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="25" pageNumber="26" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="26">Kunzea ericoides</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
hybrids are also in mixtures of mostly elongate (typical of
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="de Lange et Toelken" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea amathicola" order="Myrtales" pageId="25" pageNumber="26" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="amathicola">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="26">Kunzea amathicola</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
) and some subcorymbiform to corymbiform botrya (typical of
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="25" pageNumber="26" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="26">Kunzea ericoides</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
). The pherophylls tend to be rather variable in length and size but they are mostly lanceolate to linear-lanceolate like
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="25" pageNumber="26" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="26">Kunzea ericoides</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
. The leaf margins of
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="de Lange et Toelken" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea amathicola" order="Myrtales" pageId="25" pageNumber="26" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="amathicola">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="26">Kunzea amathicola</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="25" pageNumber="26" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="26">Kunzea ericoides</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
are also distinctive. Initially they are hairy but, like
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="25" pageNumber="26" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="26">Kunzea ericoides</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
, the hairs are progressively shed during leaf maturation. Further, hairs rarely (if ever) meet at the leaf apex.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph pageId="26" pageNumber="27">
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="26" pageNumber="27" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">
|
||
<pageBreakToken pageId="26" pageNumber="27" start="start">Kunzea</pageBreakToken>
|
||
ericoides
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="de Lange et Toelken" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea serotina" order="Myrtales" pageId="26" pageNumber="27" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="serotina">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">Kunzea serotina</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
is much less common, because the ranges of both species rarely overlap. This hybrid is mostly confined to the upper Buller River and within the Barnicoat Range and Hackett areas of eastern Nelson where the usually montane
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="de Lange et Toelken" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea serotina" order="Myrtales" pageId="26" pageNumber="27" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="serotina">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">Kunzea serotina</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
extends down into lowland areas and so abuts the main habitats of
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="26" pageNumber="27" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">Kunzea ericoides</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
. These are also areas where road construction and maintenance has significantly altered the surrounding indigenous vegetation allowing these species to meet and hybridise.
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="26" pageNumber="27" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">Kunzea ericoides</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="de Lange et Toelken" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea serotina" order="Myrtales" pageId="26" pageNumber="27" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="serotina">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">Kunzea serotina</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
is easily recognised by the erect, somewhat open, sub-pyramidal growth habit, short, weakly fastigiate branchlets, and bright yellow-green, red-tinged leaves (all features of
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="de Lange et Toelken" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea serotina" order="Myrtales" pageId="26" pageNumber="27" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="serotina">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">Kunzea serotina</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
). However, as with
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="26" pageNumber="27" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">Kunzea ericoides</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
, the leaves tend to be linear-lanceolate, though sometimes quite broadly so. Branchlet indumentum is not particularly useful because both parent species have divergent hairs, though in most examples the hybrid tends to be, like
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="de Lange et Toelken" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea serotina" order="Myrtales" pageId="26" pageNumber="27" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="serotina">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">Kunzea serotina</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
, distinctly hairy. However, rare glabrescent examples suggest that introgressive hybridisation toward
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="26" pageNumber="27" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">Kunzea ericoides</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
is occurring at some sites. The pherophylls of
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="26" pageNumber="27" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">Kunzea ericoides</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="de Lange et Toelken" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea serotina" order="Myrtales" pageId="26" pageNumber="27" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="serotina">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">Kunzea serotina</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
, like those of
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="de Lange et Toelken" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea serotina" order="Myrtales" pageId="26" pageNumber="27" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="serotina">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">Kunzea serotina</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
, are not persistent but are mostly shed during flower maturation. Further, the pherophylls of the hybrid are pandurate to elliptic (never spathulate like
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="de Lange et Toelken" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea serotina" order="Myrtales" pageId="26" pageNumber="27" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="serotina">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">Kunzea serotina</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
or narrowly elliptic, lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate like those of
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="26" pageNumber="27" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">Kunzea ericoides</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
). The flowers of
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="26" pageNumber="27" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">Kunzea ericoides</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="de Lange et Toelken" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea serotina" order="Myrtales" pageId="26" pageNumber="27" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="serotina">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">Kunzea serotina</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
offer another point of recognition. Like
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="de Lange et Toelken" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea serotina" order="Myrtales" pageId="26" pageNumber="27" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="serotina">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">Kunzea serotina</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
they tend to have more obvious oil glands than is usual for
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="26" pageNumber="27" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">Kunzea ericoides</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
, and while those of
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="26" pageNumber="27" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">Kunzea ericoides</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
are normally colourless, those of the hybrid vary from colourless through to pale yellow, the latter of which is the usual condition of
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="de Lange et Toelken" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea serotina" order="Myrtales" pageId="26" pageNumber="27" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="serotina">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">Kunzea serotina</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
<subSubSection pageId="26" pageNumber="27" type="vernacular names">
|
||
<paragraph pageId="26" pageNumber="27">Vernacular names.</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph pageId="26" pageNumber="27">
|
||
Although now universally known as
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="‘kanuka’">'kanuka'</normalizedToken>
|
||
, the name recorded for
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="26" pageNumber="27" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">Kunzea ericoides</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
from the Nelson area during Dumont
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="d’Urville’s">d'Urville's</normalizedToken>
|
||
second voyage was
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="‘manuoea’">'manuoea'</normalizedToken>
|
||
(
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="Richard, A" journalOrPublisher="Paris" pageId="103" pageNumber="104" refId="B112" refString="Richard, A, 1832. Voyage de Decouvertes de L'Astrolabe, Botanique. In: Essai d'une Flore de La Nouvelle-Zelande. Paris" title="Voyage de Decouvertes de L'Astrolabe, Botanique." volumeTitle="Essai d'une Flore de La Nouvelle-Zelande." year="1832">Richard 1832</bibRefCitation>
|
||
). Based on other specimens lodged at P(!) and elsewhere this species was also known as
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="‘manuka’">'manuka'</normalizedToken>
|
||
,
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="‘titire’">'titire'</normalizedToken>
|
||
and
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="‘atitire’">'atitire'</normalizedToken>
|
||
(for a discussion on the names
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="‘titire’">'titire'</normalizedToken>
|
||
and
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="‘atitire’">'atitire'</normalizedToken>
|
||
see
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="de Lange et Toelken" authorityYear="2014" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea robusta" order="Myrtales" pageId="26" pageNumber="27" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="robusta">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">Kunzea robusta</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
).
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
<subSubSection pageId="26" pageNumber="27" type="conservation status">
|
||
<paragraph pageId="26" pageNumber="27">Conservation status.</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph pageId="26" pageNumber="27">
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Kunzea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Kunzea ericoides" order="Myrtales" pageId="26" pageNumber="27" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="ericoides">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">Kunzea ericoides</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
is a widespread and abundant species throughout its northern South Island range and is lited as 'Not
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="Threatened’">Threatened'</normalizedToken>
|
||
by
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="de Lange, PJ" journalOrPublisher="Department of Conservation, Wellington" pageId="99" pageNumber="100" publicationUrl="www.doc.govt.nz/publications/conservation/nz-threat-classification-system/nz-threat-classfication-system-lists-2012-14/" refId="B47" refString="de Lange, PJ, Rolfe, JR, Champion, PD, Courtney, SP, Heenan, PB, Barkla, JW, Cameron, EK, Norton, DA, Hitchmough, DA, 2013b. Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular, 2012. Department of Conservation, Wellington, www.doc.govt.nz/publications/conservation/nz-threat-classification-system/nz-threat-classfication-system-lists-2012-14/" title="Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular, 2012" url="www.doc.govt.nz/publications/conservation/nz-threat-classification-system/nz-threat-classfication-system-lists-2012-14/" year="2013 b">de Lange et al. (2013b)</bibRefCitation>
|
||
.
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