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

HOHERIA A. Cunn., 1839

Fls in axillary or occ. terminal cymes, solitary fls us. also present; peduncles and pedicels ebracteate. Calyx ± campanulate to cupular, 5-fid, occ. with minute accessory teeth; petals us. 5, oblique, clawed, us. notched towards apex. Staminal column split above into a number of filaments, these us. arranged in 5 bundles; style branches as many as carpels; stigmas capitate, sts obliquely so, or decurrent along branch. Carpels 5-15, 1-ovuled, surrounding and separating from a central axis; distinctly to obscurely or not winged. Shrubs or trees with heteroblastic development and sparse to dense indumentum of stellate hairs, especially on young parts; lvs alt., simple, exstipulate. Endemic to N.Z. Type sp. H. populnea. Reticulate bast fibres well developed and forming a thick layer.

Key

1
Carpels 5-8, broadly winged; lf-teeth sharply serrate
2
Carpels 10-15, not or obscurely winged; lf-teeth crenate
4
2
Lvs of narrow-oblong order, obtuse or acute, seldom > 3 cm. long; teeth spinulose
3. angustifolia
Lvs of ovate order, us. acuminate, mostly > 5 cm. long; teeth not spinulose
3
3
Cymes mostly 5-10-fld; fls 25 mm. or more diam.; carpels 5-(6)
1. populnea
Cymes mostly 2-5-fld; fls not > 20 mm. diam.; carpels (5)-6-7-(8)
2. sexstylosa
4
Indumentum of lvs us. cop.; stigmatic surface decurrent
4. lyallii
Indumentum of lvs us. sparse; stigma capitate
5. glabrata

Hooker (Fl. N.Z. 1, 1852, 30-31) recognized two subgenera: 1. EUHOHERIA -Carpels and styles 5, the former winged at the back. 2. APTEROCARPA -Carpels and styles 10, the former not winged. Subsequent study has shown that the differences are not so clear-cut as Hooker thought. Sprague and Summerhayes (Kew Bull. 1926, 214-220) treat Hooker's subgenera as sections, and amend the descriptions: Sect. Euhoheria -"Folia argute dentata vel serrata. Carpella 5 vel 6-7; stigmata capitata. Fructus proprii conspicue alati." Sect. Apterocarpa -"Folia crenata vel crenato-serrata. Carpella 10-15; stigmata oblique capitata vel introrse decurrentia. Fructus proprii inconspicue alati vel exalati."

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