Flora of New Zealand Series

P. trichomanoides var. glauca Parl. in DC. Prodr. 16 (2), 1868, 498.

Toatoa.

Dioec. or monoec. tree up to 15 m., trunk up to 6 dm. diam. Phylloclades alt. pinnately arranged on whorled rhachides up to 4 dm. long. Lvs of juveniles up to 1·5 cm. long, linear, obtuse to subacute, deciduous; of adults much smaller. Phylloclades 10-12 per rhachis, rhomboid, unequally cuneate at base, to broadly ovate or oblong, glaucous below when young, 4-6 × 2-4 cm., shallowly to deeply lobed, margins finely crenately lobulate; lf-denticles small, subulate, curved. Male strobili in clusters of 10-20, terminal, pedicels equalling staminal portion, 1-2.5 cm. long; apiculus broadly oblong. Ovules in globose heads, 4-7 together, seated towards base of rhachis on pedicels c. 5 mm. long. Mature heads up to 15 mm. long; carpidia thick, upper margin truncate; seeds nutlike, exserted beyond white cupule, c. 3 mm. long.

DIST.: N. Lowland and montane forest from lat. 35° to 39°.