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Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Dracophyllum adamsii Petrie

D. adamsii Petrie in T.N.Z.I. 55, 1924, 435.

Type locality: Awatere River. Type: W, D. Petrie, Jan. 1897.

Erect shrub, up to c. 1m. tall; branches rather close-set, slender; branchlets very slender, ∞.Lvs thin, imbricate; sheath truncate, not or obseurely auricled, (6)-8 × (2.5)-5 mm. Lamina linear, flat, ± 65-75 × 2-3 mm., gradually narrowed into long acuminate subpungent apex. Infl. of slender spikelike 4-5-(10)-fld racemes ± 2-3 cm. long. Bracts caducous, broad-ovate, apiculate, ciliate. Fls approximate, nearly sessile; sepals broad-ovate-lanceolate, acute, thin, ciliolate, c. 4 mm. long. Corolla-tube c. 5 mm. long, subcylindric; lobes white, ovate, subacute, patent to reflexed; anthers hardly exserted. Capsule c. 3 mm. diam.

DIST.: N. Shrubland, Coromandel Pennisula to East Cape district.

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