Flora of New Zealand Series

Type: A, G. T. S. Baylis, Dec. 2, 1945.

Tree up to 5 m. tall. Branchlets c. 6-7 mm. diam., pale brown, covered with conspicuous lenticels, flattened and expanded at lf-insertions. Lvs alt., glab., dark green and glossy, coriac., mostly in terminal clusters; petiole c. 25-30 mm., stout; lamina c. 230-250 × 140-156 mm., obovate, base rounded or cuneate, apex rounded or almost truncate, margin entire; domatia present on the undersurface where lateral veins meet midrib. Panicles single and terminal or more often one or two below lvs, c. 10 cm. long, with long stalk and much-branched head; bracts small, acuminate, margin bristly; pedicels minutely hairy. Fls ∞; calyx disklike, defined below by groove, upper margin with 5 minute points opp. stamens. Petals 5, lanceolate, falling early; stamens 5, alternating with petals, filaments > petals, bent once or twice in unopened fl.; anthers large, dehiscing longitudinally; ovary sessile, ovate; ovule single, attached at the top; stigmatic disk large. Fr. unknown.

DIST.: Three Kings: Great Id, "only one tree found".

I have seen very little material and the above description is drawn up from Oliver's account.