Flora of New Zealand Series

Miro.

Tree up to 25 m., trunk up to 1 m. diam., bark grey-brown, falling in thick flakes. Lvs of juveniles up to 3 cm. long, narrow-linear, acute; of adults 1·5-2.5 cm. × 2-3 mm., dark green, distichous, patent, sub-falcate, subsessile, acute to subacute, midvein distinct, margins recurved. Male strobili solitary, axillary, almost sessile, 0·5-1·5 cm. long, furnished at base with several scales; apiculus broadly triangular, subacute. Ovules solitary or rarely paired on short branchlets c. 1 cm. long, densely furnished at base with triangular scales, not succulent. Seeds broadly oblong to sub-spherical, drupaceous, purplish, with glaucous bloom, up to 20 mm. long.

DIST.: N., S., St. Frequent in lowland forest.