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Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Coprosma cuneata sensu Hook.f.

C. cuneata Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. 1, 1844, 21.

Type locality: "Summit of the hill above Rendezvous Harbour" Auckland Id. Type: K, J. D. Hooker.

Scrambling or suberect, up to c. 2 m. tall, us. shorter; branches slender, ± divaricate, bark dark brown; branchlets ± interlacing, very slender, pubescent. Lvs fascicled on very short branchlets. Stipules triangular, pubescent, obtuse to subacute, ciliolate with long tuft at apex. Lamina rigid, coriac., dark green above, paler below, narrow-cuneate, us. ± arcuate, (5)-9-16 × (1)-2-(3·5) mm., retuse or sts rounded, occ. mucronulate, gradually narrowed to base; margins thickened, recurved. Midrib and sts secondary veins evident, at least below. Fls solitary on arrested branchlets. Drupe clear red, globose. 3-(5) mm. diam.

DIST.: A., C., Ant.

The type consists of 3 pieces with rather stout divaricate densely lfy branchlets. Lamina ± 15 × 2 mm.

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