Maytenus boaria
ζ*Maytenus boaria Molina ζ*, maiten, may form thickets by suckering from planted trees and has been collected twice, from a footpath and gutter in Christchurch and from a single thicket growing amongst indigenous trees at Church Bay, Banks Peninsula. An evergreen, glabrous tree up to 4 m (to 25 m in cultivation); lvs alternate, narrow-elliptic, ± apetiolate, serrulate, 15-50 mm long; fls small, greenish, 5-merous, in axillary fascicles; capsule 1-3-celled, 1-2-seeded, c. 4-5 mm diam.; aril red or orange-red. (Temperate S. America, 1988).
