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Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Phyllocladus trichomanoides G.Benn ex D.Don

P. trichomanoides D. Don in Lamb. Pinus ed. 3, 2 (app.), 1832.

P. rhomboidalis A. Rich. Essai Fl. N.Z. 1832, 363, non L.C. et A. Rich. Comment. Bot. Conif. 1826, 130.

Tanekaha.

Monoec. tree up to 20 m., trunk up to 1 m. diam.; phylloclades alt., pinnately arranged on whorled rhachides up to 3 dm. long. Lvs of juveniles up to 2 cm. long, narrow-linear, deciduous; of adults much smaller. Phylloclades 10-15 per rhachis, irregularly and broadly rhomboid, flabellately lobed, cuneate at base; lobes obtuse to truncate, margins minutely crenulate; lf-denticles small, subulate, 1·5-3 mm. long, up to 1·5 mm. wide. Male strobili terminal in clusters of 5-10, pedicels 3-10 mm. long; staminal portion c. 1 cm. long, apiculus small, triquetrous; carpidia rather thick, marginal on reduced final phylloclades up to 3 cm. long, in clusters of 6-8; seeds nutlike, exserted beyond irregularly crenulate cupule, c. 3 mm. long.

DIST.: N., S. Lowland forest, N. Cape to lat. 40° in N., and northern Marlborough and Nelson, extending to nearly lat. 42° on west.

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