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Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Phebalium nudum Hook.

P. nudum Hook. Ic. Pl. 1843, t. 568.

Type locality: Owai near .Whangaroa. Type: K, Colenso, N.Z.

Glab. aromatic much-branched shrub up to ± 3 m. tall; branchlets slender, ascending; bark reddish. Lvs alt., on very short ± twisted petioles; lamina coriac., ± 25-45 × 5-10 mm., narrow- to lanceolate oblong, obtuse, minutely crenulate, brownish green above, reddish below, gland-dotted. Infl. a terminal corymb up to c. 5 cm. diam.; peduncle and pedicels slender, reddish, ± scurfy. Fls 8-10 mm. diam., fragrant; sepals minute, pubescent, triangular; petals c. 4-6 mm. long, white, linear, apex inflexed. Staminal filaments c. 6-8 mm. long. Pistil 5-lobed. Cocci us. 1-2 maturing (1-2 aborted), about rhomboid, ± 4 mm. long.

DIST.: N. Forests, especially marginal, from lat. 35° to 37° 30'. Mairehau.

FL. 10-12. FT. 11-1.

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