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Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Corokia buddleioides A.Cunn.

C. buddleioides A. Cunn. in Ann. nat. Hist. 3, 1839, 249.

Type locality: "Margins of woods on the shores of the Bay of Islands, Wangaroa, etc." Type: BM, A. Cunningham, 1826.

Much-branched shrub up to 3 m. or more tall; branchlets slender, not divaricate; bark dark, rough. Lvs alt., coriac., 5-15 × 1-3 cm., on stout petioles up to 1 cm. long; lamina narrow- to rather broad-lanceolate, acuminate to acute. Panicles terminal and axillary, up to 5 cm. long; fls c. 7-10 mm. diam. Calyx-segs ovate-oblong, obtuse, c. 2-3 mm. long; petals bright to pale yellow, c. 5 mm. long, ovate-lanceolate-oblong, subacute. Drupes bright to dark red to black, c. 6-7 mm. long.

DIST.: N. Coastal to lowland forest and forest margins from lat. 35° to 38°. Korokia.

FL. 10-12. FT. 11-4.

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