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Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Dracophyllum fiordense W.R.B.Oliv.

D. fiordense W. R. B. Oliver in T.N.Z.I. 59, 1929, 705.

Type locality: Wilmot Pass. Type: W, W. R. B. Oliver, March 1927.

Robust, not or sparingly branched, up to c. 3 m. tall, trunk up to c. 4 cm. diam. Lvs thick, coriac., in very large clusters towards apex of stem; sheath ± 6 × 3 cm., very gradually tapering into lamina ± 6-7 dm. × 4-5 cm.; margins smooth, narrowing to acuminate apex. Panicle 10-12-(15) cm. long, arising on stem below lvs; axis stout, curved; branches 2-5 cm. long. Fls ∞, rather crowded; sepals ovate, acute, c. 2.5 mm. long; corolla-tube = sepals, lobes reflexed. Anthers exserted. Capsule 2 × 2.5 mm. (fide Oliver loc. cit. 1929, 706). In specimens seen by me up to c. 4 mm. diam.

DIST.: S. Montane to subalpine forest, shrubland, western Otago and Fiordland.

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