Flora of New Zealand Series

Type: A, T. F. Cheeseman.

Shrub or tree up to 5 m. tall; bark dark brown; branchlets slender, flexuous; lenticels ∞. Lvs entire, dark green, coriac., 10-20 cm. long, up to 12 cm. wide, on stout petioles up to 15 mm. long; lamina ovate- to elliptic-oblong, obtuse to subacute, rounded to obliquely cordate at base; stipules lanceolate, caducous. Spikes solitary or paired, 5-12 cm. long, per.-segs 3-4 mm. diam., pubescent on back. ♂ with spreading segs; ♀ minute, in 2 irregular dense rows on flattened axis, segs appressed. Drupe globose, bright red, 8-9 mm. diam.

DIST.: Three Kings.

Oliver (Rec. Auck. Inst. Mus. 3, 1948, 220) gives some lf-sizes: largest 235 × 115 mm., next largest 221 × 115 mm. "The petioles are short, 10-15 mm. long, thick and curved."