
%0 Journal Article
%A Orchard.A.E, 
%T A revision of the Coprosma pumila (Rubiaceae) complex in Australia, New Zealand and the Subantarctic Islands.
%J Brunonia
%D 1986/08/01
%V 9
%N 2
%P 119-138
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/BRU9860119
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/BRU9860119 
%X The widespread    complex of mat-forming Coprosma species, hitherto known as 'Coprosma pumila', plus    some close allies (C. petriei, C. atropurpurea, C. nivalis) have been reexamined. C. pumila    s. str. is shown to be restricted to the northern central plateau and Ben Lomond areas of    Tasmania. The name C. perpusilla Col. is resurrected for the orange-fruited plants of    Australia and New Zealand formerly included in C. pumila.  A new subspecies,    C. perpusilla ssp. subantarctica, is erected for the plants on Macquarie, Auckland, Camp-    bell and Antipodes Islands. A new species, C. niphophila, is recognised for the Mt    Kosciusko region and the South Island of New Zealand. The six species and two    subspecies of the complex are keyed, fully described and illustrated, and their interrelation-    ships, particularly their trans-Tasman vicariance, are discussed. 
