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

I. brexioides A. Cunn. in Ann. nat. Hist. 3, 1839, 249.

Tawari.

Type locality: "Skirts of woods at Wangaroa". Type: K, A. Cunningham, Nov. 1828.

Tree up to 10 m. tall or more; trunk up to 2 dm. diam.; branchlets, petioles, peduncles and pedicels ± pilose-pubescent when young. Lvs 6-16 × 1-4 cm., on petioles up to 2 cm. long; lamina coriac., dark green above, lanceolate to elliptic or oblanceolate, acute to subacute, coarsely bluntly serrate. Panicles 5-10-fld; pedicels articulated; fls 2.5-3·5 cm. across. Sepals broad-ovate, downy, c. 5-6 mm. long, petals white, obovate-spathulate, clawed, 1·5-2 cm. long; stamens exserted. Capsules 1-1·5 cm. diam.; styles 1·5 cm. long; seeds c. 5 mm. long, glossy.

DIST.: N. Lowland and lower montane forests from lat. 35° 30' to a little south of 38°.

FL. 11-1. FT. 12-3.

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