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Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Coriaria arborea var. kermadecensis W.R.B.Oliv.

Var. kermadecensis W. R. B. Oliver in Rec. Dom. Mus. Wellington 1, 1942, 34.

"Folia ovata vel anguste ovata, acuta vel acuminata. Sunday Island. Type specimen collected by W. R. B. Oliver in Dominion Museum (DM. 44). . . [leaf] length 5-6·5 cm., breadth 2-2·9 cm. On an average, too, the flower pedicels are shorter."

The type specimen consists of the upper part (38 cm.) of a branch with several pairs of apparently ascending racemes. Lvs with petioles 1-2 mm. long; lamina broadly to rather narrowly ovate-oblong, acuminate (tips mostly broken off) 4-5·5 × 1·5-2.5 cm. Racemes up to c. 15 cm. long; fls close-set, on pedicels 2-3-(5) mm. long.

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