Flora of New Zealand Series

Dicera dentata J. R. et G. Forst. Char. Gen. Pl. 1776, 80.

E. hinau A. Cunn. in Ann. nat. Hist. 4, 1840, 23.

E. cunninghamii Raoul Choix 1846, 25.

Hinau.

Canopy tree up to 15 m. or more tall; trunk up to 1 m. diam.; bark grey; branchlets silky when young. Lvs on stout petioles up to 25 mm. long. Lamina (5)-10-12 × 2-3 cm., narrow- to obovate-oblong, obtuse to abruptly acuminate (on same plant), coriac., ± white silky-hairy below; margins ± sinuate, ± recurved, bluntly serrate to subentire. Racemes c. 10-(18) cm. long, 8-12-fld, on silky-hairy pedicels c. 1cm. long. Fls drooping, 8-12-15 mm. diam.; petals white, obovate-cuneate, 3-5-lobed, ± 10 mm. long; sepals ± 6 mm. long, pubescent, about lanceolate-oblong. Stamens 10-20, filaments short, anthers linear. Ovary 2-celled, at first silky-hairy. Drupe ± 12-18 × 9 mm., ovoid, purplish; endocarp rugulose.

DIST.: N., S. Lowland forest from near North Cape to lat. 46° 30'.

FL. 10-2. FT. 12-5.