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Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Laurelia novae-zelandiae A.Cunn.

L. novae-zelandiae A. Cunn. in Ann. nat. Hist. 1, 1838, 381.

Atherosperma novae-zelandiae (A. Cunn.) Hook. f. Handbk N.Z. Fl. 1864, 240.

Pukatea.

Type locality: "margins of streams flowing into the Keri-Keri river". Type: BM, A. Cunningham, 1826.

Tree up to 35 m. tall; trunk up to 2 m. diam., with plank-buttresses at base; bark pale; ultimate branchlets tetragonous, sparsely hairy. Lvs coriac. on petioles up to 1 cm. long; lamina dark green and glossy above, paler below, 4-8 × 2.5-5 cm., elliptic to elliptic-obovate, coarsely bluntly serrate. Racemes axillary, up to 3 cm. long, pedicels softly hairy. Fls ± 6 mm. across; ♂ 5-6-partite to near base, stamens ± 12; ♀ urceolate, contracted above, segs spreading, carpels ∞.Achenes ± 5 mm. long, fusiform; styles up to 2 cm. long, densely clad in long silky hairs.

DIST.: N., S. Lowland semi-swamp and gully forest, extending to lat. 42° on east and lat. 46° on west of S.

FL. 10-12. FT. 10-1.

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