Flora of New Zealand Series

Pisonia brunoniana Endl. Prodr. Fl. norf. 1833, 43.

P. sinclairii Hook. f. Fl. N.Z. 1, 1854, 209, t. 50.

P. mooriana F. Muell. Fragm. Phyt. Austr. 1, 1858, 20.

Calpidia brunoniana Heimerl in Öst. bot. Z. 63, 1913, 283.

Ceodes brunoniana Skottsb. in Medd. Göteb. bot. Träd. 2, 1926, 231.

Heimerlia brunoniana Skottsb. in Svensk bot. Tidskr. 30, 1936, 738.

Parapara.

Type locality: Norfolk Id. Type: K, F. Bauer, (portion).

Shrub or tree up to 6 m. tall or more; trunk up to 6 dm. diam.; branches brittle. Lvs opp. to subwhorled, 10-40 × 5-15 cm., on petioles up to 3 cm. long; lamina glab., submembr., entire, oblong to obovate-oblong, obtuse. Panicles many-fld, bracts foliaceous, pedicels ± pubescent. Per. up to 10 mm. long, greenish, pubescent to glabrate; stamens 6-8, anthers not or very slightly exserted. Fruiting per. elongate, narrow, constricted below mouth; ribs 5, papillose, very viscid, enclosing fr.

DIST.: K., Three Kings, N. east coast to East Cape.