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Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Pittosporum crassicaule Laing & Gourlay

P. crassicaule Laing et Gourlay in T.R.S.N.Z. 65, 1935, 50.

Type locality: Arthur Pass. Type: CM, 760 m. Arthur Pass, Laing.

Shrub, ± virgate, up to 4 m. tall; branchlets rigid, divaricate, pilose when young. Lvs of juveniles lobed to pinnatifid or bipinnatifid, 3-15 mm. long, ± lanceolate to oblong in outline. Lvs of adults 5-7 mm. long, elliptic-oblong, entire to subentire, mostly fascicled on short arrested branchlets. Fls terminal, solitary or in fascicles of 2-3, on short arrested branchlets. Sepals ovate-oblong, ciliate, 1-2 mm. long; petals very dark red, c. 5 mm. long, linear-oblong. Capsules subglobose, 5-7 mm. diam., valves granulate; seeds 1-6.

DIST.: S. Montane forest to subalpine scrub both sides of divide from lat. 42° 30' to 43° 30'. Further distribution uncertain.

FL.- FT. 10-12.

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