Flora of New Zealand Series

Type: A, Sunday Id, Cheeseman.

Tree up to 8 m. tall; branchlets pubescent. Lvs alt., 7-15 × 3-4 cm., on petioles up to 2.5 cm. long; lamina ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, serrate; glab. above, rugulose; white-hoary below; midrib and main veins prominent. Infl. of sessile, axillary glomerules. ♂ with acuminate per.-segs, 2-3 mm. long, clad in stiff hairs. ♀ with tubular per. 2 mm. long, contracted at 2-toothed apex; stigma filiform, exserted. Fruiting per. compressed, broadly winged; achenes very minute, ovoid.

DIST: K.

FL. Most of year.