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Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Dracophyllum viride W.R.B.Oliv.

D. viride W. R. B. Oliver in T.N.Z.I. 59, 1929, 699.

Type locality: Spirit's Bay. Type: W, W. R. B. Oliver, 28/11/1916.

Much-branched shrub or tree up to 5 m. tall; branches rather stout, bark very dark brown; branchlets rather slender, reddish brown, lfy towards tips. Lvs thin, becoming patent. Sheath ± 10 × 6 mm., gradually narrowed to lamina or sts indistinctly shouldered. Lamina ± (4)-5-7 cm. × c. 5-6·5 mm. Racemes lax, 5-6-fld, slender, arising immediately below tufts of lvs on branchlets. Bracts thin, narrow, acuminate. Sepals acute, narrow, sparingly ciliolate. Corolla-tube c. 4 mm. long.

DIST.: N. Shrubland from near North Cape to Kaitaia.

Lvs of juvenile plants reach 175 x 8 mm.

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