Flora of New Zealand Series

Type locality: Queen Charlotte Sound. Type: P? There is a Forster specimen at K.

Shrub or tree up to 3-(6) m. tall; branches and branchlets stout, glab.; bark reddish brown. Lvs opp. on stout glab. petioles 10-30 mm. long; wing narrow, decurrent. Stipules short, triangular-truncate, ± ciliolate; denticles 1-3, prominent. Lamina thick, coriac., glab., glossy dark green above, paler below, obovate to narrow-obovate to broad-elliptic, abruptly narrowed to produced midrib, cuneately narrowed to petiole; ± (8) - 12-17 × 3-4 cm.; margins sts waved or distantly crenulate. Veins with close reticulations, evident below and often above. ♂ in dense clusters on simple or branched peduncles 10-15 mm. long, often with Iflike bracts at angles; calyx cupular, teeth 4-5, obtuse; corolla funnelform, lobes 5-6, acute, ± = tube. ♀ 3-4 per cluster, on trichotomously branched peduncles, main peduncle c. 3 cm. long; calyx cupular, teeth 5-6, short, triangular; corolla funnelform, tube ± 2 mm., lobes 5-6, acute. Drupe orange-red, oblong 8-12 mm. long.

DIST.: N., S., St. Shrubland, forest, especially marginal, lowland to montane, sts epiphytic; from near North Cape southwards. Karamu.