Flora of New Zealand Series

Type locality: "Alluvial banks of rivers, Bay of Islands". Type: K, R. Cunningham 1834, a fruiting piece in rather poor order.

Glab. tree up to 10 m. or more tall; trunk up to 6 dm. diam.; young bark pale, branchlets 4-angled. Lvs on slender petioles 5-10 mm. long; lamina entire, (25)-40-50 × 10-15 mm., ± undulate or sinuate, about elliptic-oblong. Infl. of several- to many-fld corymbose cymes up to 8 cm. across. Fls ± 12 mm. diam.; receptacles broad-obconic, slightly exceeding berry. Sepals broad-oblong; petals white, soon falling; filaments c. 12-15 mm. long; ovary adnate to base of receptacle, 2-celled, ovules ∞. Berry ± 10-12 mm. diam., ± globose to ovoid, red; seed solitary, large, with hard testa.

DIST.: N., S. Lowland swamp- and bog-forest or shrubland throughout to lat. 41° 30', local in S.

FL.- FT. 1-7.