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Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Forstera L. ex G.Forst.

FORSTERA Linn. f., 1780

Fls 1-2-(5) on slender peduncles; receptacle ± ovoid. Calyx-lobes ± equal, 5-(6); corolla subregular, tube short, lobes 5-(9), subequal. Column short, erect; stigma 2-lobed. Capsule 1-celled, opening at apex; seeds ∞, with lax testa produced at each end. Glab. perennial sparsely branched herbs with small, entire, imbricate, coriac. lvs; lf-bases persistent. Genus of a few spp. of N.Z., Tasmania, Fuegia. The N.Z. spp. apparently endemic, but very imperfectly studied, requiring cultural treatment.

Key

1
Costa of lf tapering from a broad base; prominent on ventral surface, at least in dry state
2
Costa hardly tapering from a narrow base; inconspicuous to hardly evident
3
2
Lvs mostly ± 4-8 × 2-3 mm., of broad-ovate to broad-obovate order
1. sedifolia
Lvs mostly ± 8-10 × 2-2.5 mm., of linear to narrow-oblong order
2. mackayi
3
Lvs close-set, sessile, very coriac
3. bidwillii
Lvs distinctly separated, very shortly petioled, less coriac
4. tenella
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