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Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Alectryon Gaertn.

ALECTRYON Gaertn., 1788

Fls perfect to unisexual in panicles; calyx 4-5-lobed, hairy within; petals 0; disk 8-lobed; stamens 5-8. Ovary obliquely obcordate, compressed, 1-celled; style short, stigma 2-3-lobed to simple; ovule solitary. Capsule ± woody, subglobose, crested; seeds arillate, cots spirally coiled. Trees with alt., pinnate, exstipulate lvs. About 20 spp. of Hawaii, Pacific Is, New Guinea, Australia. The N.Z. spp. endemic.

Key

1
Lvs 10-30 cm. long; lflts 4-6 pairs, acuminate
1. excelsus
Lvs 30-45 cm. long; lflts 2-3 pairs, obtuse to subacute
2. grandis
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