Flora of New Zealand Series

Telaranea patentissima var. ampliata J.J.Engel & Merrill, Fieldiana, Bot. 44: 48. f. 16: 1, 2, 6–8. 2004. 

Holotype: New Zealand, Otago Prov., Mt. Maungatua, W of Mosgiel, 500 m, Engel 17777 – c. sporo. (F); isotype: (CHR).

[Fig. 59: 1, 2, 6–8]

Leaves often 5–6-lobed, the disc becoming irregularly and often asymmetrically cuneate, the disc and lobe margins irregular, with bulging cells; disc typically 5–6(7) cells high, with areolation (especially in distal sector) ± irregular due to divisions in various planes.

This distinctive expression of the species has broad, somewhat irregularly cuneate leaves, with the cells of the lobe and disc margins often bulging (Fig. 59: 7, 8). The leaf disc is rather high (to 6 or 7 cells, Fig. 59: 2), the cells are somewhat irregularly arranged, and the lobes are narrowly acute (often 3–4 cells wide for several tiers above the extreme base).