Flora of New Zealand Series

M. cunninghamii Chatin Anat. Veg. Pl. paras. 1891, 361.

Fusanus cunninghamii Benth. et Hook. f. ex Kirk For. Fl. 1889, 137, t. 75, 76.

Maire.

Type locality: "forests of Wangaroa". Type: K, A. Cunningham, 1826. The type specimen has lvs 5-6 cm. × 6-7 mm.

Tree up to ± 6 m. tall; trunk up to 2 dm. diam.; branchlets slender, bark grey. Lvs alt., with occ. subopp. pairs, on short slender petioles. Lamina narrow-lanceolate, ± 5-10-(12) cm. × 3-10 mm., acute to subacuminate, thinly coriac. to membr., entire; dark green and somewhat glossy above, paler below, punctulate. Infl. axillary, of short few-fld racemes on slender, short peduncles. Pedicels ± 5 mm. long. Fls ± 4-6 mm. diam., greenish, perfect to functionally unisexual. Receptacle ± hemispheric; tepals (4)-5-(6), broadly triangular, deciduous; stamens (4)-5-(6), on short slender filaments subtended by tufts of hairs; disk (4)-5-(6)-lobed; stigma 2-4-lobed. Fr. c. 7-12 × 6-8 mm., narrow-turbinate, bright red, crowned by rim of receptacle.

DIST.: N. Lowland to lower montane forest from near North Cape southwards, rather local, more common in northern part of range.

FL. 9-11. FT. 10-2.