We value your privacy

We use cookies and other technologies to enhance your experience, analyse site usage, help with reporting, and assist in other ways to improve the website. You can choose to allow cookies and other technologies or decline. Your choice will not affect site functionality.

Click for help
Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
Copy a link to this page Cite this record

Paratrophis smithii Cheeseman

P. smithii Cheesem. in T.N.Z.I. 20, 1888, 148.

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."

Click to go back to the top of the page
Top