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Volume IV (1988) - Flora of New Zealand Naturalised Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms, Dicotyledons
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Chamelaucium uncinatum Schauer

*C. uncinatum Schauer, in Lehm., Pl. Preiss.  1:   97  (1844)

Geraldton wax plant

Glabrous shrub, 1-3 m high. Lvs opposite, sessile, 1.5-3 cm long, linear-triquetrous, at least when dry, prominently glandular; apex hooked. Fls in terminal corymbs. Hypanthium 5-6 mm long, turbinate, prominently glandular; lobes very broad, shallow and rounded. Petals 5-6 mm diam., orbicular, pink or white. Stamens much < petals. Ovary apex dark red. Style c. 5 mm long, with plumose ring below stigma. Fr. not seen.

N.: near North Cape.

W. Australia 1957

Old sand dunes.

FL Oct-Dec.

Geraldton wax plant is fairly commonly cultivated in warmer parts of N.Z.

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