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Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Korthalsella lindsayi (Oliv. ex Hook.f.) Engl.

K. lindsayi (D. Oliver) Engl. in Pflanzenfam. Nachtr. 1897, 138.

Viscum lindsayi D. Oliver ex Hook. f. Handbk N.Z. Fl. 1864, 108.

Heterixia lindsayi Tiegh. loc. cit. 43, 1896, 178.

Type locality: "East Taieri Bush". Type: K, "5 Nov. 1861, Herb. Dr Lauder Lindsay".

Plant (3)-5-(10) cm. long, branching at wide angle. Internodes thick, much-flattened, obovate to broad-spathulate in outline, ± 5-12 × 3-9 mm., subsucculent, rather abruptly narrowed to much-constricted node. Collar ± minutely toothed, sheathing node, ± 0·5 mm. long. Flowering branches much narrower, less flattened, forming terminal or lateral pseudo-spikes, the terminal ones often paired, ± 6 mm. long. Fr. obovoid, ± succulent and viscid, ± 2 mm. long.

DIST.: N., S. From about lat. 39° southwards, not uncommon, on a rather wide range of hosts, especially spp. of Melicope, Coprosma.

FL.- FT. 11-2.

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