Parent:
BEILSCHMIEDIA Nees, 1831
2.
B. tawa (A. Cunn.) Benth. et Hook. f. ex Kirk For. Fl. 1889, 257, t. 126.
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Tree up to 24 m. or more tall, trunk up to 1 m. diam., bark dark, smooth; branchlets slender, at first sparsely hairy. Lvs alt. to occ. subopp., on slender petioles up to 1 cm. long; lamina thinly coriac., entire, 5-10 × 1-2 cm., lanceolate to narrow-elliptic, acute to obtuse, ± glaucous below, midrib and main veins evident. Panicles axillary, up to 8 cm. long; peduncles and pedicels slender, glabrate. Fls 2-3 mm. diam., bracts linear, caducous; per. segs ovate to oblong, glabrate. Drupe ellipsoid to ovoid, 2-3 cm. long, one-seeded; pericarp dark purple.
DIST.: N., S. Lowland to lower montane forest from near North Cape to nearly lat. 42° on Seaward Kaikoura Range.
FT. 10-2. FL. 9-12.
Type locality: "Shaded moist forests at Bay of Islands". Type: BM, A. Cunningham, 1826.
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