Flora of New Zealand Series

D. recurvatum Col. in T.N.Z.I. 21, 1889, 93.

Type locality: "Dry woods on the Kana Kana [Kawakawa] river, Bay of Islands". Type: BM, A. Cunningham, 1826.

Tree up to c. 7 m. tall, trunk up to c. 3 dm. diam., bark rough; branches candelabra-like. Lvs in dense clusters towards apex of branches, ± squarrosely spreading to reflexed, coriac., glab. Sheath c. 4 × 2.5 cm., gradually tapering into lamina ± 25-60 × 2.5-3·5 cm., gradually narrowing into very long fine point; margins very minutely serrulate-crenulate. Panicle rather slender, ± 15-30-(45) cm. long; at first erect or ascending, drooping in fruiting stage; branches close-set, ± 3·5 cm. long, at acute angle to axis. Bracts ovate-oblong, pubescent. Fls close-set on pubescent pedicels c. 3-4 mm. long. Sepals short, broad-ovate, acute to subacute, reflexed. Corolla-tube ± 3 mm. long, lobes oblong, obtuse, reddish. Anthers slightly exserted. Capsule depressed-globose, c. 2.5 mm. diam.

DIST.: N. From c. lat. 35º to 39º. Neinei.

FL. 12-1.

Oliver (loc. cit. 1952, 16) points out that D. recurvatum Col. in T.N.Z.I. 21, 1889, 92 is a synonym of D. latifolium A. Cunn. This view is well supported by the type specimen in W. Colenso has written "Hill's Dracophyllum, best specimen sent to Kew". The specimen at K is conspecific. The type of D. recurvatum Col. is from "hills around Lake Waikare, County of Wairoa; 1888: Mr. H. Hill."