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Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Drapetes Banks ex Lam.

DRAPETES Banks, 1792

Fls perfect to functionally unisexual, sessile in small heads; receptacle villous. Per. tube funnelform to subcampanulate; lobes 4, patent; throat us. with 1-2 scales opp. each lobe. Stamens 4, inserted on throat, filaments short. Ovary sessile, 1-celled, 1-ovuled; style long, stigma capitate. Fr. dry or drupaceous; endocarp crustaceous, finally free from outer layers. Low-growing shrubs with small alt. imbricating lvs. Genus of a few spp. of Fuegia, N.Z., Australia, New Guinea, Borneo. The N.Z. spp. are endemic.

Key

1
Plant forming small cushions up to 10 cm. diam.; stems and branches short, very close-set, erect or ascending; lfy portion of branchlets hardly > 1 cm. long; lvs of ovate order; per.subcampanulate
1. lyallii
Plant forming small prostrate mats or lax patches up to 30 cm. diam.; stems and branches prostrate and rooting; branchlets prostrate to ascending, lfy portion up to 5 cm. long; lvs of linear to lanceolate order; per. funnel-form to tubular
2
2
Branchlets densely villous
3
Branchlets glabrate to glab., except sts at base of lvs
4
3
Lvs mostly 3-4 mm. long; nerves very conspicuous; fls 3-4 per head
2. villosus
Lvs mostly 5-7 mm. long; nerves us. not very conspicuous; fls 5-12 per head
3. multiflorus
4
Lvs flat or nearly so, submembr., 4-7 mm. long; scales 8, distinct
4. laxus
Lvs strongly concavo-convex, coriac., hardly > 3 mm. long; scales 4, sts bilobed or of closely approximated pairs
5. dieffenbachii
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