Flora of New Zealand Series

Telaranea lindenbergii var. papillata J.J.Engel & Merrill, Fieldiana, Bot. 44: 83. f. 26A. 2004. 

Holotype: New Zealand, North Is., South Auckland Prov., Whareorino Forest, track to Leitch’s Hut, 280 m, Engel 23773 – c. sporo. (F); isotype: (AK).

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Distribution and Ecology : The type and only known plant occurred on clay banks under a Blechnum novae-zelandiae overhang, with Weinmannia and Dicksonia squarrosa as the dominant forest canopy and with occasional Leptospermum scoparium.

Comments : Plants are similar to var. complanata in the incubous insertion of the branch leaves, but differ in the terete, not complanate-foliate branches and the roughened surface of the leaf lobes (Fig. 69: 6). The lobes are rather short, 4–5 cells long (Fig. 69: 1–5) vs. 5–6(7) cells long in var. lindenbergii (Fig. 68: 2–5).