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Ourisia glandulosa

Ourisia glandulosa.<br>Photographer: Heidi Meudt, Licence: All rights reserved.
Ourisia glandulosa.<br>Photographer: Heidi Meudt, Licence: All rights reserved.
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Common name

mountain foxglove

Synonyms

None

Family

Plantaginaceae

Authority

Ourisia glandulosa Hook.f.

Flora category

Vascular – Native

Endemic taxon

Yes

Endemic genus

No

Endemic family

No

Structural class

Herbs - Dicotyledons other than Composites

NVS code

The National Vegetation Survey (NVS) Databank is a physical archive and electronic databank containing records of over 94,000 vegetation survey plots - including data from over 19,000 permanent plots. NVS maintains a standard set of species code abbreviations that correspond to standard scientific plant names from the Ngä Tipu o Aotearoa - New Zealand Plants database.

OURGLA

Chromosome number

2n = 48

Current conservation status

  • Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2017

The conservation status of all known New Zealand vascular plant taxa at the rank of species and below were reassessed in 2017 using the New Zealand Threat Classification System (NZTCS). This report includes a statistical summary and brief notes on changes since 2012 and replaces all previous NZTCS lists for vascular plants. Authors: By Peter J. de Lange, Jeremy R. Rolfe, John W. Barkla, Shannel P. Courtney, Paul D. Champion, Leon R. Perrie, Sarah M. Beadel, Kerry A. Ford, Ilse Breitwieser, Ines Schönberger, Rowan Hindmarsh-Walls, Peter B. Heenan and Kate Ladley.

2012 | Not Threatened

Previous conservation statuses

2009 | Not Threatened

2004 | Not Threatened

Habitat

Alpine (1050-2000 m a.s.l.) in damp, south-facing, shaded sites within tussock-land, herbfields, and scrub. Usually amongst rocks, in crevices or stonefields

Features

Perennial herbs 5-135 mm tall, with erect inflorescences and repent leaves; stems 1.3-2.8 mm diameter, internodes 1.3-7.1 mm long, clearly separated, glabrous. Leaves opposite, distichous, densely packed along creeping stems; petiole 1.8-5.0 x 1.1-3.8 mm, glabrous or eglandular pilose mostly along margins; lamina 4.7-10.6 x 3.0-8.4 mm, narrowly to broadly obovate, spathulate, apex rounded, base attenuate, margin subentire or with 1-few, irregular notches or regularly crenate, upper surface, punctate, sparsely or densely eglandular pilose near apex, undersides glabrous, punctate. Inflorescence racemose, 1-7-flowered, 48-143 mm long, bracteate, with 1-4 flowering nodes, 2 bracts and 1-2- flowers per node; peduncle 0.8-1.5 mm diameter, pilose or villous, densely glandular/eglandular hairy. Floral bracts up to 6.0-9.1 x 3.6-8.0 mm, sessile or with short, wide petioles, narrowly to broadly obovate, margins subentire or 1-few notched, often emarginate, glandular/eglandular pilose or villous. Flowers 13.5-18.8 x 6.8-15.9 mm; pedicel 5.8-21.9 mm long, pilose to villous, hairs mostly glandular. Calyx 6.2-8.6 x 4.0-8.3 mm, irregular, externally eglandular/glandular pilose, internally mostly glabrous, anterior calyx lobes 5.2-7.1 x 1.5-3.6 mm, posterior calyx lobes 1.3-3.1 x 1.5-3.2 mm, 3 posterior lobes divided 1/4 of calyx length, 2 anterior lobes divided to near base, lanceolate, or narrowly ovate, rarely oblanceolate to narrowly obovate, apex rounded, rarely subacute, prominently 3-veined below. Corolla 14.5-19.0 x 21.1-23.0 mm when flattened, bilabiate, tubular-funnelform, straight or slightly curved, white, externally glabrous; tube 6.1-9.8 x 4.3-5.9 mm at apex, 2.1-3.5 mm wide at base, not constricted near base, mostly yellow inside, sometimes purple outside near base only, glabrous; anterior corolla lobes 7.2-10.3 x 5.1-6.6 at widest point, 2.2-3.1 mm wide at base, posterior corolla lobes 5.0-8.0 x 4.4-7.0 mm wide at widest point, 1.9-3.3 mm wide at base, spreading, obovate or slightly obcordate, apically plane, slightly emarginate or undulate. Stamens 4, didynamous; comprising two long stamens 5.9-10.0 mm long, reaching tube opening, and two short stamens 3.7-8.9 mm long, included; anthers 0.7-1.2 x 0.8-1.1 mm, reniform to horseshoe-shaped; staminode c.0.2-1.7 mm long, inserted c.0.2-0.7 mm above base of corolla, or absent. Style 4.0-6.0 mm long, slightly curved, not exserted; stigma 0.4-0.8 mm diameter, emarginate; ovary 2.9-4.8 x 1.1-2.3 mm, glabrous. Capsules 5.5-6.0 x 4.3-4.6 mm, glabrous, dehiscence loculicidal, rarely septicidal. Seeds 0.6-1.0 x 0.4-0.6 mm.

Similar taxa

Distinguished by the small stature and numerous, short glandular hairs on most parts of the plant except the leaves.

Flowering

December - March

Flower colours

White, Yellow

Fruiting

January- April

Propagation technique

Difficult - should not be removed from the wild.

Etymology

ourisia: After Ouris, governor of the Falkland Islands

glandulosa: Gland bearing

Where To Buy

Not commercially available

Attribution

Description based on Meudt (2006).

References and further reading

Meudt, H.M. 2006: Monograph of Ourisia (Plantaginaceae), Systematic Botany Monographs 77. 188pp.

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