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Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Hymenanthera novae-zelandiae (A.Cunn.) Hemsl.

H. novae-zelandiae (A. Cunn.) Hemsl. in Kew Bull. 1908, 95.

Scaevola? novae-zelandiae A. Cunn. in Ann. nat. Hist. 2, 1839, 429.

H. latifolia var. tasmanica Kirk in T.N.Z.I. 3, 1871, 163.

H. latifolia Kirk Stud. Fl. 1899, 45 non Endl. Prodr. Fl. norf. 1833, 127.

Type locality: "on the sea-coast opposite the Cavallos Isles". Type: K, R. Cunn., 1834.

Stout dioec. shrub up to 3 m. tall. Lvs on petioles up to 5 mm. long, subcoriac., broadly obovate-oblong to broad-elliptic, obtuse, (3)-6 × 2-3·5 cm.; margins slightly thickened, ± recurved, sinuate to crenulate, rarely bluntly serrate, rarely subentire. Fls 3-4 mm. diam., fascicled; ♂ often clustered on branches below lvs; pedicels decurved, bracts ± at middle. Sepals ovate, free to near base; petals twice length of sepals, narrow-oblong, revolute at tips; anther membrane produced into 5 triangular, jagged teeth. ♀ smaller, ovary ovoid, style 2-fid. Berry subglobose, (4)-5-(6)mm. diam., purplish. Seeds us. 2, plano-convex; strophiole us. conspicuous.

DIST.: Three Kings, N. From near North Cape to lat. 37° 30', mainly on coastal islands.

FL. 8-9. FT. 8-10.

Included by Hooker (Fl. N.Z. 1, 1852) under his H. crassifolia.

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