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Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Myrsine kermadecensis Cheeseman

M. kermadecensis Cheesem. in T.N.Z.I. 24, 1892, 410.

Rapanea kermadecensis (Cheesem.) Mez in Pflanzenr. 9, 1902, 371.

Suttonia kermadecensis Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. 1925, 712.

Type: A, T. F. Cheeseman.

Tree up to c. 5 m. tall; bark rough, dark red-brown. Lvs on stout petioles up to ± 6 mm. long. Lamina 3-6·5 × 1-2.5 cm., elliptic- to obovate-oblong, obtuse, sts apiculate, entire, coriac.; margins slightly recurved. Infl. of many-fld fascicles. Fls unisexual, ± 2.5 mm. diam.; calyx minute, lobes 4-5, broad; corolla 4-5-lobed nearly to base, lobes fringed. Fr. (4)-6-9 mm. diam., globose, finally black.

DIST.: K. Sunday Id.

FL.- Ft. 8-9.

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