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

D. patens W. R. B. Oliver in T.N.Z.I. 59, 1929, 698.

Type locality: summit of Mount Hobson, Great Barrier Id. Type: W, W. R. B. Oliver 8/12/1916.

Small robust shrub; lvs ascending, becoming patent. Sheath 8-10 × 3-4 mm. with scarious margins, narrowed to thick subulate lamina (35)-40 × 6-6·5 mm., acute, very minutely serrulate. Racemes (2)-5-6-fld, terminal on lateral branchlets bearing a tuft of lvs just below infl. Lowest bracts lflike; sheath 3-4 mm. long, ciliate on shoulder, lamina ± 15 mm. long, ciliolate, ± pubescent near sheath. Sepals broad, acute, sparingly ciliolate. Corolla-tube c. 4 mm. long, subcampanulate; style stout, c. 2 mm. long; capsule ± 2 mm. diam.

DIST.: N. Scrub, Great Barrier Id, Coromandel Peninsula.

Lvs of juvenile plants less rigid; sheath to 15 mm. long, lamina to 10 cm. × 10 mm.

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