Hebe pimeleoides (Cockayne and Allan, 1927)

Figure 19

Material. Present in 25% of the shelters with dry vegetation. Shelter-005: LX5406; Shelter-011: LX3230, LX3231; Shelter-012: SL 6716; Shelter-015: SL 6698; Shelter-016: SL 6690, SL 6692, SL 6695, SL 6696; Shelter-020: LX2945, LX2947, LX2960; Shelter-021: LX3149; Shelter-022: SL 6593, SL 6595; Shelter-025: SL 6681; Shelter-028: LX2938; Shelter-030: LX2441, LX2468, LX2967; Shelter-032: LX2985; Shelter-037: LX2995, LX2996, LX2997, LX2998; Shelter-046: LX2567, LX2577; Shelter-047: LX3276; Shelter-049: LX3328; Shelter-054: LX3283; Shelter-055: LX3314; Shelter-058: SL 6486; Shelter-062: LX3273; Shelter-072: LX3020; Shelter-073: SL 6510; Shelter-084: LX2561, LX2895; Shelter-088: LX3287, LX3290; Shelter-090: LX3270; Shelter-109: LX3237, LX3238, LX3240; Shelter-115: LX5670.

Remarks. This Hebe species has small (7-10 mm long) leaves (i.e., it is not a ‘whip cord’). Fragments can be recognised by cuticle, which is unequally amphistomatic, with stomatal apertures surrounded by a sharply defined and irregularly shaped rim (often a narrow ellipse). On one leaf surface the area in between the stomata is relatively smooth and in the other, the normal epidermal cells each have a central papilla.