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Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Litsea calicaris (Sol. ex A.Cunn.) Benth. & Hook.f. ex Kirk

L. calicaris (A. Cunn.) Benth. et Hook. f. ex Kirk For. Fl. 1889, 15, t. 10.

Laurus? calicaris Sol. ex A. Cunn. in Ann. nat. Hist. 1, 1838, 380.

Tetranthera tangao R. Cunn. mss., cited by A. Cunn. loc. cit.

T. calicaris Hook. f. Fl. N.Z. 1, 1854, 216.

Mangeao.

Type locality: "Riversides at Bay of Islands". Type: BM, R. Cunningham, 1834.

Tree up to 12m. tall; trunk up to 8 dm. diam.; bark dark. Lvs alt., subcoriac., on petioles up to 2 cm. long; lamina 5-12.5 × 3-5 cm., ovate to oval to ovate-elliptic, obtuse to subacute, glab., ± glaucous below. Umbels 4-5-fld, involucrate, axillary, racemosely arranged; pedicels slightly hairy. Per. segs 5-8, creamy, oblong to ovate, 4-5 mm. long. Stamens c. 12; filaments slender, biglandular; staminodes flattened, biglandular; stigma dilated, irregularly 3-lobed. Drupe subovoid, c. 15-20mm. long, seated in enlarged per. tube; mesocarp reddish.

DIST.: N. Lowland forest from near North Cape to lat. 38°.

FL. 9-10. FT. 9-11.

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