Leptecophylla juniperina
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Leptecophylla juniperina is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae and is native to Australia and New Zealand. It is usually a shrub with narrowly egg-shaped, sharply pointed leaves, bell-shaped flowers arranged singly and white or pink drupes.
Description
Leptecophylla juniperina is a compact or tall shrub that typically grows to a height of Template:Cvt, rarely a tree to Template:Cvt and has rounded brown branchlets. Its leaves are narrowly egg-shaped, Template:Cvt long, Template:Cvt wide with a sharply pointed tip Template:Cvt long and a petiole Template:Cvt long. The flowers are arranged singly in leaf axils or on the ends of branchlets, male flowers on a pedicel Template:Cvt long and female flowers on a pedicel Template:Cvt long. There are egg-shaped bracts Template:Cvt long and 8 to 24 overlapping, egg-shaped bracteoles Template:Cvt long on the pedicels. The sepals are Template:Cvt long and the petal tube is bell-shaped and longer than the sepals, the male flowers Template:Cvt long and the female flowers Template:Cvt long. Flowering time depends on subspecies, and the fruit is a white or pale to dark pink drupe, Template:Cvt high and Template:Cvt wide.[2]
Taxonomy
This species was first formally described in 1775 by Johann Forster and Georg Forster who gave it the name Epacris juniperina in their book Characteres Generum Plantarum.[3][4] In 2000, Carolyn M. Weiller transferred the species to the genus Leptecophylla as L. juniperina in the journal Muelleria.[2] and described three subspecies:[5][2]
- Leptecophylla juniperina (J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.) C.M.Weiller subsp. juniperina has glabrous petals, leaves Template:Cvt long and Template:Cvt wide with flat edges, 5 veins, and flowers from September to May.[2]
- Leptecophylla juniperina subsp. oxycedrus(Labill.) C.M.Weiller has glabrous petals, leaves Template:Cvt long and Template:Cvt wide, 3 to 5 veins and mainly flowers from September and October.[2]
- Leptecophylla juniperina subsp. parvifolia(R.Br.) C.M.Weiller has petals with a few rigid hairs, leaves Template:Cvt wide, 5 to 7 veins and mainly flowers in November and December.[2]
Distribution and habitat
Leptecophylla juniperina is native to New Zealand and Victoria and Tasmania. Subspecies Juniperina is widespread in forest and shrubland in New Zealand and in lowland areas of eastern, north-western and western areas of Tasmania. Subspecies oxycedrus is restricted to exposed, rocky coastal regions of southern and western Tasmania, Bass Strait Islands and southern Victoria and subsp. parvifolia is common at altitudes above Template:Cvt in central and eastern parts of Tasmania.[2]
Common names
Common names in New Zealand include prickly heath and prickly mingimingi. Māori names for this plant include hukihuki, hukihukiraho, inakapōriro, inangapōriro, kūkuku, miki, mikimiki, mingi, mingimingi ngohungohu, pā tōtara, taumingi, and tūmingi.[6] In Australia, subspecies parvifolia is known as pink mountain berry[7]
References
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- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Leptecophylla juniperina". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 20 June 2025.
- ^ a b c d e f g Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Weiller, Carolyn M. (2000). "Leptecophylla, a new genus for species formerly included in Cyathodes (Epacridaceae)". Muelleria. 12 (2): 200–206. Retrieved 23 June 2025.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Epacris juniperina". Australian Plant Name Index. Retrieved 23 June 2025.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Forster, Johann R.; Forster, Georg (1775). Characteres generum plantarum, quas in itinere ad insulas maris Australis, : collegerunt, descripserunt, delinearunt, annis 1772-1775. London: Prostant apud B. White, T. Cadell, & P. Elmsly. p. 20. Retrieved 23 June 2025.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Leptecophylla juniperina". Australian Plant Name Index. Retrieved 23 June 2025.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Leptecophylla juniperina (J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.) C.M.Weiller (1999)". New Zealand Plants Database. Landcare Research. Retrieved 13 July 2009.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Cochrane, G.R.; Fuhrer, B.A.; Rotherdam, E.M.; Simmons, J.; Simmons, M. & Willis, J.H. (1980). Flowers and Plants of Victoria and Tasmania. A.H. & A.W. Reed. ISBN 0-589-50256-5.
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