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Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Dracophyllum densum W.R.B.Oliv.

D. densum W. R. B. Oliver in T.R.S.N.Z. 80, 1952, 3.

Type locality: Mount Rochfort. Type: W, W. R. B. Oliver, 2/3/1949 at 2000 ft.

Shrub with inner branches erect, sts as much as 2 m. tall; outer prostrate; bark dark grey. Branchlets us. densely clad in imbricate persistent lvs or lf-bases throughout, bark reddish brown. Sheath ciliolate, 2-3 × 1-2 mm., margins white, narrowed into linear plano-convex, sts keeled lamina ± 10-12 × 0·5 mm., margins almost entire, apex obtuse. Fls solitary, terminal on branchlets; lower bracts narrow-ovate, gradually tapering to apex, ciliolate. Sepals narrow-ovate, ciliolate. Corolla-tube c. 5 mm. long; lobes white, triangular. c. 1·5 mm. long. Anthers sessile at throat. Capsule ± 2 mm. diam., truncate, 5-lobed.

DIST.: S. Mount Rochfort, Mount William, Denniston Plateau, Mount Davey. Also reported from Mount Augustus.

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