Muehlenbeckia ephedroides

Muehlenbeckia ephedroides, the leafless pohuehue or leafless muehlenbeckia, is a prostrate or climbing plant, native to the North Island of New Zealand.[1]

Muehlenbeckia ephedroides
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Polygonaceae
Genus: Muehlenbeckia
Species:
M. ephedroides
Binomial name
Muehlenbeckia ephedroides
(Hook f.)

Description

The species are grey-green, grey to grey-black in colour. Its stem is branched and is 1 millimetre (0.039 in) in diameter. It is also flexuous, striate, puberulent, and is grey to grey-black or grey-green in colour. The leaves are of the same colour, are glabrous and are 5–25 millimetres (0.20–0.98 in) long. Inflorescence is fascicled or racimed with pale pedicels which are 1–1.5 millimetres (0.039–0.059 in) long. Flowers have a pistillate and are staminate as well. Lobes are narrow-triangular, and are either white, pale yellow-green or just green in colour. Stigmas are obovoid trigonous and are 1.5 millimetres (0.059 in) long. They have white coloured and succulent tepals which are swollen as well.[1] The twigs are leafless.[2]

Habitat

It is found on elevation of 0–1,200 metres (0–3,937 ft) in coastal or subalpine climates. It can be found growing near rivers, on beaches, sand spits, and alluvial fans.[1]

References
  1. "Muehlenbeckia ephedroides". NZ Conservation Network. Retrieved June 4, 2013.
  2. Peter Wardle (1991). Vegetation of New Zealand. Cambridge University Press. p. 41. ISBN 0-521-25873-1.
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