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Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Pittosporum anomalum Laing & Gourlay

P. anomalum Laing et Gourlay in T.R.S.N.Z. 65, 1935, 55.

Type locality: "Jack's Hut", Arthur Pass. Type: CM, R. M. Laing.

Divaricating shrub up to c. 1 m. tall; branchlets slender, flexuous, interlacing, ± tomentose. Juvenile lvs linear to narrow-oblong, irregularly dentate-serrate to pinnatifid, c. 1 cm. × 2 mm. Adult lvs aromatic, alt. or in alt. fascicles on arrested branchlets, 5-15 × 3 mm., linear, pinnatifid, mixed with lvs 5-10 mm. long, linear, lobed as in juveniles, and with others c. 5 mm. long, entire. Fls terminal on arrested branchlets or sts axillary. Sepals c. 1·5 mm. long, lanceolate-oblong; petals ciliolate, c. 3 mm. long, erose, yellowish with reddish margins. Capsules c. 5 mm. long, ovoid, 2-valved, valves submembr. Seeds 1-4, not immersed in viscid fluid, covered by papery membrane (endocarp).

DIST.: Forest margins. N. Mount Rangitoto, Waitomo Co., R. Green, BD 87688; Volcanic Plateau. S. Arthur Pass.

FL. 9-11. FT. 3-4.

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