We value your privacy

We use cookies and other technologies to enhance your experience, analyse site usage, help with reporting, and assist in other ways to improve the website. You can choose to allow cookies and other technologies or decline. Your choice will not affect site functionality.

Click for help
Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
Copy a link to this page Cite this record

Quintinia A.DC.

QUINTINIA A. DC., 1830

Fls small, in axillary or terminal racemes; calyx tube adnate to ovary, lobes persistent; petals imbricate; stamens 5. Ovary 3-5-celled, style persistent; stigmas capitate, 3-5-lobed. Capsule obovoid to ellipsoid, 3-5-valved, inferior to half-superior. Shrubs or trees with alt., coriac., exstipulate lvs, us. with marginal glandular teeth. Young branchlets, lvs, peduncles and pedicels ± viscid and invested with lepidote scales. Genus of a few spp. in New Guinea, Australia and N.Z. (our spp. endemic).

Key

1
Lvs 2-7 × 1-3 cm., of elliptic order, rather obscurely toothed to entire
3. elliptica
Lvs 6-16 × 1-5 cm., of narrow-lanceolate to obovate order, us. distinctly toothed
2
2
Lvs of narrow-lanceolate to narrow-oblong order, us. not > 2.5 cm. wide
1. serrata
Lvs of obovate to broad-elliptic order, us. 3-5 cm. wide
2. acutifolia
Click to go back to the top of the page
Top