Hebe lycopodioides

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• Description
• Biology
• Taxonomy
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Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Family Scrophulariaceae

Herbs, sometimes shrubs , rarely trees ; mostly autotrophic, less often hemiparasitic or parasitic. Stipules absent. Leaves alternate, opposite, whorled , or basally opposite and apically alternate, simple or sometimes pinnately dissected . Inflorescences racemes , spikes, or thyrsoid panicles, determinate or indeterminate, or flowers solitary. Flowers perfect , usually zygomorphic, rarely actinomorphic . Calyx often persistent , (2-) 4- or 5-lobed or -parted, variously connate . Corolla sympetalous ; limb (3 or) 4- or 5-lobed, often 2-lipped. Stamens mostly 4, didynamous , sometimes 1 or 2 staminodes present, less often 2 or 5 stamens; anther locules 1 or 2, equal or subequal , free or confluent . Nectary often present at base of ovary, ringlike, cupular, or reduced to a gland . Ovary superior, 2-loculed, rarely apically 1-loculed; ovules numerous , rarely 2 per locule, on axile placentas, anatropous or hemitropous . Style simple; stigma capitate, 2-lobed, or 2-lamellate. Fruit a capsule, septicidal , loculicidal, or septifragal, sometimes opening by pores or irregularly dehiscent , rarely a berry. Seeds minute or rarely conspicuous , sometimes winged ; testa often reticulate ; hilum lateral or ventral; endosperm fleshy or absent; embryo straight or curved .

About 220 genera and 4500 species: cosmopolitan ; 61 genera (seven endemic) and 681 species (415 endemic) throughout China but with a greater concentration in SW China.[1]

Physical Description

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 1,758 meters (0 to 5,768 feet).[2]

Biology

Growth

Culture: Space 9-12" apart.

Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Full Sun .

Temperature: Cold Hardiness: 8a, 8b, 9a, 9b. (map)

Taxonomy

Notes

A tentatively accepted name in the RHS Horticultural Database.

Similar Species

Members of the genus Hebe

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 62 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

H. albicans (Hebe) · H. albicans 'Pink Elephant' (Hebe) · H. albicans 'Red Edge' (Hebe) · H. albicans 'Sussex Carpet' (Hebe) · H. amplexicaulis f. hirta (Hebe) · H. buchananii (Hebe) · H. buchananii 'Sir George Fenwick' (Hebe) · H. buxifolia (Boxleaf Hebe) · H. buxifolia 'Nana' (Boxleaf Hebe) · H. carnosula (Hebe) · H. cupressoides (Whipcord Hebe) · H. cupressoides 'Boughton Dome' (Whipcord Hebe) · H. decumbens (Hebe) · H. franciscana (Francisco Hebe) · H. haastii (Hebe) · H. hartii (Hebe) · H. lycopodioides (Hebe) · H. macrocarpa var. brevifolia (Hebe) · H. ochracea 'James Stirling' (Figwort) · H. parviflora var. arborea (Koromiko Taranga) · H. pauciramosa (Hebe) · H. pimeleoides (Hebe) · H. pimeleoides 'Quicksilver' (Hebe) · H. pinguifolia (Shrubby Veronica) · H. pinguifolia 'Pagei' (Shrubby Veronica) · H. pinguifolia 'Sutherlandii' (Shrubby Veronica) · H. recurva (Hebe) · H. salicifolia (Koromiko) · H. speciosa (New Zealand Hebe) · H. speciosa 'Magenta' (Showy Hebe) · H. speciosa 'Tricolor' (Showy Hebe) · H. speciosa 'Variegata' (Showy Hebe) · H. topiaria (Hebe) · H. 'Alicia Amherst' (Hebe) · H. 'Amy' (Hebe) · H. 'Andersonii Variegata' (Variegated Hebe) · H. 'Autumn Glory' (Hebe) · H. 'Blue Elf' (Hebe) · H. 'Brill Blue' (Hebe) · H. 'Caledonia' (Hebe) · H. 'Clear Skies' (Hebe) · H. 'Emerald Green' (Hebe) · H. 'Franciscana Variegata' (Hebe) · H. 'Great Orme' (Great Orme Hebe) · H. 'Janet Pink' (Hebe) · H. 'Mckean' (Mckeans Hebe) · H. 'Midsummer Beauty' (Hebe) · H. 'Mrs. Winder' (Hebe) · H. 'Nicola's Blush' (Nicola's Blush Hebe) · H. 'Oratio Beauty' (Hebe) · H. 'Pascal' (Hebe) · H. 'Purple Picture' (Hebe) · H. 'Sandra Joy' (Hebe) · H. 'Silver Dollar' (Hebe) · H. 'Sutherlandii Gold' (Hebe) · H. 'Temptation' (Hebe) · H. 'Violet Snow' (Hebe) · H. 'White Gem' (Hebe) · H. 'Wiri Blush' (Hebe) · H. 'Wiri Charm' (Hebe) · H. 'Wiri Mist' (Hebe) · H. 'Wiri Prince' (Hebe)

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Further Reading

• Tsoong Puchiu & Yang Hanbi, eds. 1979. Scrophulariaceae (1). Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 67(2): 1-431. Tsoong Puchiu, ed. 1963. Scrophulariaceae (2). Fl. Reipulb. Popularis Sin. 68: 1-449.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 11, 2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 17, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 5863600
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15848025
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:989279-1
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 743715

Footnotes

1. Deyuan Hong, Hanbi Yang, Cun-li Jin, Manfred A. Fischer, Noel H. Holmgren & Robert R. Mill "Scrophulariaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 18 Page 1. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
2. Mean = 1,346.170 meters (4,416.568 feet), Standard Deviation = 440.400 based on 82 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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