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Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Melicytus macrophyllus A.Cunn.

M. macrophyllus A. Cunn. in Ann. nat. Hist. 4, 1840, 256.

Type locality: "Shady forests . . . between the Bay of Islands and Hokianga River." Type: K, A. Cunn. 624,67/1826.

A tree up to 6 m. tall; trunk up to 4 dm. diam.; bark light brown. Lvs on light-coloured petioles 1-2 cm. long; lamina (5)-7 -15-20) × (3)-4-6-(10) cm., coriac., coarsely and bluntly serrate, obovate-oblong, abruptly acute (some lvs rounded at apex) sinuately and cuneately narrowed to base. Infl. of 3-12 fascicled fls on slender, decurved pedicels c. 1·5 cm. long; bracts just below fls. Fls 6-7 mm. diam.; calyx lobes ovate-oblong, obtuse, 1-2 mm. long; petals narrow-oblong to ligulate, becoming recurved (♀ shorter, remaining suberect). ♂ with sessile, free, apiculate anthers; ♀ with short style and discoid 3-5-lobed stigmas. Berry subglobose to turbinate, 5-7 × 4-6 mm., white, ± purple flushed; seeds 4-6.

DIST.: N. Lowland to lower montane forest, lat. 35°-38°. S. Waikari creek, near Dunedin.

FL. 9-10. FT. 10-12.

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