Flora of New Zealand Series

Suttonia dentata W. R. B. Oliver in Rec. Auck. Inst. Mus. 3, 1948, 230.

Rapanea dentata W. R. B. Oliver loc. cit. 4, 1951, 111 non

Myrsine dentata Spreng. Syst. Veg. 1828, 664.

Type: A, G.T.S.Baylis, 4/12/1945.

Tree up to c. 6m. tall; bark smooth, greyish; branchlets stiff, divergent. Lvs on rather stout flat petioles 5-6-(10) mm. long. Lamina coriac., scaberulous when young, (3)-5-10 × (1·5)-3-4 cm., obovate to elliptic, rounded or slightly emarginate at apex; margins thickened; irregularly dentate in upper part. Infl. of dense, cymose fascicles; pedicels glab., ± 2.5 mm. long. Calyx-lobes 5, narrow; petals 5, free, elliptic, acute, fimbriate. Stamens 5, opp. petals; stigma capitate. Fr. subturbinate-globose, ± 5-7 mm. diam.

DIST.: Three Kings. Great Id.