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Astelia nivicola

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Astelia nivicola
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Asteliaceae
Genus: Astelia
Species:
A. nivicola
Binomial name
Astelia nivicola

Astelia nivicola is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteliaceae. It is native to the New Zealand.

Description

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Cheeseman published this description posthumously in 1925:

A tufted herb forming extensive patches in moist alpine hollows. Leaves 6-12 in. long, 15-14 in. broad at the middle, coriaceous but flexible, gradually tapering upwards into an acute apex, keeled towards the base and stem-clasping, and then suddenly expanded into a thin and membranous almost transparent sheath; upper surface pale bronzy-green to glaucous-green, covered with a membranousnpellicle or more or less silky-tomentose; under-surface clothed with thin shaggy or villous whitish tomentum; veins variable in number, usually about 6 on each side of the rather slender midrib, which is sunken above but prominent beneath. Flowers not seen. Fruiting-panicle (one specimen alone seen) very short, 34 in. long and about as wide, nearly sessile among the bases of the uppermost leaves; branches few, short, densely compacted. Berry apparently ovoid-globose, 14-13 in. long, reddish-orange, sunk in the persistent base of the perianth.[1]

Distribution

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Astelia nivicola is native to South Island of New Zealand.[2]

References

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  1. ^ a b Cheeseman, T. F. (1925), Oliver, W. R. B. (ed.), Manual of the New Zealand Flora (2nd ed.), New Zealand Government, p. 319, OCLC 1129885839, Wikidata Q115528659
  2. ^ "ASTELIA Banks et Sol. ex R. Br. , 1810". Retrieved 2009-05-04.