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

P. fairchildii Cheesem. in T.N.Z.I. 20, 1888, 147.

Type: A, Great Id, T. F. Cheeseman.

Rather compactly branched shrub up to 5 m. tall with slender spreading branchlets; bark brown. Branchlets, lvs and peduncles clad in white hairs when young, becoming glab. Lvs on petioles ± 5-6 mm. long, lamina coriac., 5-7·5 × 2-3·5 cm., obovate-cuneate to elliptic-oblong, obtuse to subacute, abruptly narrowed to apex, gradually narrowed to petiole; margins thickened. Fls terminal, solitary or in 2-4-fld umbels; pedicels slender, c. 1·5 cm. long, with scattered hairs. Sepals subulate to narrow-oblong, acute, pilose; petals oblong, obtuse, 1-1·5 cm. long, dark red. Capsules depressed-subglobose, c. 2-2.5 cm. diam., 3-4-valved, glab. when mature; valves hard, woody, furrowed or not.

DIST.: Three Kings.

FL. 8-9.

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