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Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Pittosporum turneri Petrie

P. turneri Petrie in Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. 1925, 491.

Type locality: Waimarino Plateau. Type: A, Petrie.

Juvenile plant a shrub with divaricating and interlacing branches; lvs coriac., 3-20 × 2-5 mm., entire to irregularly toothed or pinnatifid, obovate to narrow-obovate to linear in outline, passing gradually to adult form. Flowering plants with lvs c. 30-50 × 5-10 mm., obovate to narrow-obovate, cuneately narrowed to slender petiole c. 1-2 mm. long, entire to shallowly lobulate. Umbels terminal, 4-10-fld; pedicels c. 1 cm. long; sepals ovate-lanceolate, acute; petals 11/2 times as long as sepals, light red. Capsules subglobose, subcompressed, c. 7 mm. diam., 2-valved; valves woody.

DIST.: N. Streamsides and forest margins: Hauhangaroa Range and Waimarino Plateau, 600-1050 m.

FL. 10-12. FT. 1-?

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