Nania pumila A. Heller , Minnesota Bot. Stud. 1: 864. 1897.
Type information:
Holotype
[MIN]. A.A. Heller 2738. 21 August 1895. Kaua`i: in and near bog at the head of the Wahiawa [River].3000ft. Isotype(s)
[A!, GH [fragment BISH!], K, NY [mfc!]].
Note: Collection 2738, pro parte. Other collections distributed under Heller 2738 were made 19 October (BISH!, US!), and are not types. Rock (1917) cited "type in Gray Herbarium" and that is the sheet represented in his plate 24 (Harvard stamp faintly legible); 21 August can be read on the label. The fragment of the GH sheet at BISH has a label in Rock's handwriting and no date is given on the label.
=Metrosideros polymorpha var. pumila
Note: Collection 2738, pro parte. Other collections distributed under Heller 2738 were made 19 October (BISH!, US!), and are not types. Rock (1917) cited "type in Gray Herbarium" and that is the sheet represented in his plate 24 (Harvard stamp faintly legible); 21 August can be read on the label. The fragment of the GH sheet at BISH has a label in Rock's handwriting and no date is given on the label.
*Verification: Wagner, W.L. & R.K. Shannon. 1999. Brittonia 51:422-438.