Coprosma cuneata

Coprosma cuneata, is a shrub in the Rubiaceae family, native to New Zealand.

Coprosma cuneata
Plate XV Coprosma cuneata[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Rubiaceae
Genus: Coprosma
Species:
C. cuneata
Binomial name
Coprosma cuneata

Coprosma cuneata is a shrub with clusters of small dark green narrow leaves. The leaves are curved and 9-16mm by 2mm. They are widest at the tip, and have a tuft of small hairs between the base of the pairs of leaves. The fruit is red and persists on the shrub.[3]

Conservation status

In both 2004 and 2009 it was deemed to be "Unthreatened" under the New Zealand Threat Classification System,[3] and this classification was reaffirmed in 2018.[4]

gollark: Palaiologos CPU reveal?
gollark: <@332271551481118732> wanted to make an AQA pseudocode → AQA assembly compiler.
gollark: The !!FUN!! AQA assembly language?
gollark: Not ALL webdevs are evil. I optimize my things for low resource use and make them run in-browser properly instead of Electron.
gollark: **The most gollarious response:**- pretending things- pretending there's some horrible name for it- implying it's badness- If they're profitable, you'll get some shit from people on the internet- blahblatantly passing it away- no sense.

References

  1. Hooker, J.D. (1844). "Coprosma cuneata". The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. discovery ships Erebus and Terror in the Years 1839-1843 :under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross. 1: 21., t. 15
  2. "Coprosma cuneata". International Plant Names Index (IPNI). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  3. "Coprosma cuneata | New Zealand Plant Conservation Network". nzpcn.org.nz. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
  4. Lange, Peter J. de; Rolfe, Jeremy R.; Barkla, John W.; Courtney, Shannel P.; Champion, Paul D.; Perrie, Leon R.; Beadel, Sarah M.; Ford, Kerry A.; Breitwieser, Ilse; Schönberger, Ines; Hindmarsh-Walls, Rowan (2018). "Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2017" (PDF). New Zealand Threat Classification Series. 22: 60. OCLC 1041649797.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.