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Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Pittosporum virgatum var. matthewsii (Petrie) Allan

Var. matthewsii (Petrie) Allan comb. nov. 

P. matthewsii Petrie in T.N.Z.I. 52, 1920, 17.

Type: W, Kennedy Bay, H. B. Matthews.

Pubescence greyish white. Lvs of juveniles up to 4 cm. × 2-3 mm., linear; of semi-juveniles up to 4 cm. × 4-5 mm., linear to linear-obovate; of adults 3-5 cm. × 5-10 mm., elliptic to narrow obovate-oblong, acute to obtuse. Sepals narrow-lanceolate, acute; petals dark red, sharply reflexed. Capsules obovoid to subpyriform, c. 1·8 × 1 cm.

DIST.: Type locality: Kennedy Bay, Coromandel Peninsula.

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