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Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Hebe raoulii (Hook.f.) Cockayne & Allan

H. raoulii (Hook. f.) Ckn. et Allan in T.N.Z.I. 57, 1926, 44.

Veronica raoulii Hook. f. Handbk N.Z. Fl. 1864, 214.

Small rupestral shrub, branches 15-30 cm. long, erect to straggling. Branchlets pubescent with short ± retrorse hairs, internodes short or long. Lvs erecto-patent, 6-25 × 2.5-8 mm., spathulate, tapering into narrow but ill-defined petiole; lamina glab., coriac., not keeled; margins serrate, often reddish. Infl. 2-6 cm. long, terminal, us. compound, the lateral spikes subtended by progressively smaller lvs; peduncles elongating in fr. Fls crowded and almost sessile. Bracts 1·5-3 mm. long, broad, ciliate, sts pubescent at base. Calyx-lobes little > bracts, similarly ciliate. Corolla lavender-coloured to almost white, tube < calyx, lobes > tube, 2-3·5 mm. long, ovate. Capsule erect, to 3·5 mm. long, very turgid, ± didymous, us. glab.; seeds ± spindle-shaped, slightly winged.

Key

1
Plant erect; lvs narrow-spathulate; anterior calyx-lobes free
var. pentasepala
Plant semi-prostrate or straggling; lvs broad-spathulate; anterior calyx-lobes fused almost to tip
2
2
Lvs mostly 1-2 cm. long, obviously toothed
var. raoulii
Lvs mostly < 1 cm. long, often obscurely toothed, several pairs below infl. much smaller and entire
var. maccaskillii
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