Dracophyllum townsonii

Dracophyllum townsonii is a species of shrub or small tree endemic to the north of New Zealand's South Island. It was first described by Thomas Cheeseman in 1906 and gets the specific epithet townsonii after the chemist and plant collector William Townson. In the heath family Ericaceae, it inhabits mountain slopes and reaches a height of 3–6 m.[1][2]

Dracophyllum townsonii
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Ericales
Family: Ericaceae
Genus: Dracophyllum
Species:
D. townsonii
Binomial name
Dracophyllum townsonii

References

Notes

    Citations
    1. de Lange, Peter. "Dracophyllum townsonii". New Zealand Plant Conservation Network. Archived from the original on 2020-10-25. Retrieved 2021-08-07.
    2. Venter, Stephanus (March 2021). "A taxonomic revision of the Australasian genera Dracophyllum and Richea (Richeeae: Styphelioideae: Ericaceae)". Australian Systematic Botany. 34 (2): 65–68. doi:10.1071/SB19049_CO. ISSN 1030-1887.
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