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Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Mida A.Cunn. ex Endl.

MIDA A. Cunn. ex Engl., 1837

Fls 5-merous, perfect to functionally unisexual, in cymose, often fascicled, racemes. Ovary semi-inferior, receptacle cupular; tepals reduced to (4)-5-(6) minute triangular teeth; disk (4)-5-(6)-lobed; stigma 2-4-lobed. Fr. turbinate. Glab. trees or shrubs with mostly alt. lvs. So far as known confined to 1 sp. in Juan Fernandez and 1 in N.Z.

For a discussion of this and related genera see Sprague and Summerhayes (Kew Bull. 1927, 193-202).

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