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New Zealand Journal of Botany, 2003
A new endemic addition to Coprosma Sect. Acerosae, Coprosma elatirioides, is described from New Zealand. The new species is a common shrub of mid to oligotrophic wetland habitats along the West Coast and in the southern third of the South Island, and on Stewart Island. Previously, Coprosma elatirioides was included within a broad circumscription of C. brunnea, from which it is distinguished by its non-flexuous branching habit, comparatively large, conspicuous and persistent calyces and a deeply divided corolla on female flowers, and restriction to wetland habitats. Coprosma elatirioides is most similar to C. intertexta, from which it is distinguished by its subscandent, trailing growth form, shortly sheathing and conspicuously denticulate stipules, fleshy coriaceous, adaxially pubescent leaves with obtuse apices, and ecology. C. elatirioides is further distinguished from C. brunnea, C. intertexta, and the other coprosma species of Sect. Acerosae by nrDNA internal transcribed spacer (ITS) and external transcribed spacer (ETS) sequence differences.
GROUP-2003-Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society
A revised and updated classification for the families of the flowering plants is provided. Newly adopted orders include Austrobaileyales, Canellales, Gunnerales, Crossosomatales and Celastrales. Pertinent literature published since the first APG classification is included, such that many additional families are now placed in the phylogenetic scheme. Among these are Hydnoraceae (Piperales), Nartheciaceae (Dioscoreales), Corsiaceae (Liliales), Triuridaceae (Pandanales), Hanguanaceae (Commelinales), Bromeliacae, Mayacaceae and Rapateaceae (all Poales), Barbeuiaceae and Gisekiaceae (both Caryophyllales), Geissolomataceae, Strasburgeriaceae and Vitaceae (unplaced to order, but included in the rosids), Zygophyllaceae (unplaced to order, but included in eurosids I), Bonnetiaceae, Ctenolophonaceae, Elatinaceae, Ixonanthaceae, Lophopyxidaceae, Podostemaceae (Malpighiales), Paracryphiaceae (unplaced in euasterid II), Sladeniaceae, Pentaphylacaceae (Ericales) and Cardiopteridaceae (Aquifoliales). Several major families are recircumscribed. Salicaceae are expanded to include a large part of Flacourtiaceae, including the type genus of that family; another portion of former Flacourtiaceae is assigned to an expanded circumscription of Achariaceae. Euphorbiaceae are restricted to the uniovulate subfamilies; Phyllanthoideae are recognized as Phyllanthaceae and Oldfieldioideae as Picrodendraceae. Scrophulariaceae are recircumscribed to include Buddlejaceae and Myoporaceae and exclude several former members; these are assigned to Calceolariaceae, Orobanchaceae and Plantaginaceae. We expand the use of bracketing families that could be included optionally in broader circumscriptions with other related families; these include Agapanthaceae and Amaryllidaceae in Alliaceae s.l. , Agavaceae, Hyacinthaceae and Ruscaceae (among many other Asparagales) in Asparagaceae s.l. , Dichapetalaceae in Chrysobalanaceae, Turneraceae in Passifloraceae, Erythroxylaceae in Rhizophoraceae, and Diervillaceae, Dipsacaceae, Linnaeaceae, Morinaceae and Valerianaceae in Caprifoliaceae s.l.
A new species of Coprosma (Rubiaceae) from the South Island, New Zealand (vol 41, pg 223, 2003)
A new species, Coprosma fowerakeri, is described from alpine habitats of the South Island, New Zealand. Previously included within C. pseudocuneata, it is distinguished by its low spreading habit; stout, recurved lateral branches that often root on contact with soil; fleshy-coriaceous, almost succulent, dark green to bronze-green leaves; conspicuously denticulate, shortly sheathing interpetiolar stipules; bright orange fruit; tetraploid chromosome number; and preference for alpine habitats. Coprosma fowerakeri is an abundant alpine and occasionally subalpine species whose conservation status is rated as "Not Threatened" using the New Zealand Threatened Species Classification System.
Coprosma pedicellata (Rubiaceae), a new species from New Zealand
New Zealand Journal of Botany, 1999
A new, diploid species of Coprosma, C. pedicellata (2n = 44) is described and illustrated. It has a close morphological affinity with the northern New Zealand hexaploid species C. parviflora (2n = 132), which may be an ancient amphidiploid derivative. C. pedicellata is readily identified by its distinctive growth habit, habitat, and pendant pedicellate violet drupes. It is known from a few disjunct localities along the foothills of eastern New Zealand where it is restricted to forest or forest margins, usually on moderately fertile soils with impeded drainage, in overflow and flood channels, and alongside small streams. It shares these cool winter-wet/warm summer-dry habitats with a select group of woody species, including other rare smallleaved divaricate shrubs and dwarf mistletoes. C. pedicellata is considered to be a restricted taxon in need of active conservation management over the greater part of its present natural range. B98050
A new species of Coprosma (Rubiaceae) from the South Island, New Zealand
New Zealand Journal of Botany, 2003
A new species, Coprosma fowerakeri, is described from alpine habitats of the South Island, New Zealand. Previously included within C. pseudocuneata, it is distinguished by its low spreading habit; stout, recurved lateral branches that often root on contact with soil; fleshy-coriaceous, almost succulent, dark green to bronze-green leaves; conspicuously denticulate, shortly sheathing interpetiolar stipules; bright orange fruit; tetraploid chromosome number; and preference for alpine habitats. Coprosma fowerakeri is an abundant alpine and occasionally subalpine species whose conservation status is rated as "Not Threatened" using the New Zealand Threatened Species Classification System.
Progress in Botany, 2012
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