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Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Coprosma acutifolia Hook.f.

C. acutifolia Hook. f. in J. Linn. Soc. (Bot.) 1, 1856, 128.

Type locality: Sunday Id. Type: K, M'Gillivray.

Tree up to c. 10 m. tall; branches ascending; branchlets slender, glab. Lvs on slender petioles 5-7 mm. long. Stipules membr., sheathing, sub-acute; denticle prominent. Lamina membr., glab., ovate to ovate-elliptic to lanceolate, acuminate, tapering to petiole; ± 60-(75) × 20- (35) mm.; margins ± waved. Reticulated veins fine, evident. ♂ 3-9 on slender axillary branched peduncles 10-15 mm. long; calyx cupular, teeth 4-5, acute; corolla subfunnelform, lobes 5, acute, ± = tube; stamens us. 5. ♀ 3 in a cluster on branched axillary peduncles; calyx cupular, teeth triangular, us. 5; corolla tubular, lobes linear-triangular, < tube. Drupe orange-red, oblong, 7-8 mm. long.

DIST.: K. Forest.

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