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Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Elytranthe (Blume) Blume

ELYTRANTHE Blume, 1830

Fls perfect, cymosely arranged; outer tepals reduced to truncate or toothed rim to receptacle; inner connivent to connate into tube, splitting into 5-6, us. highly coloured segs. Anthers basifixed, style filiform, stigma clavate to capitate. Ovary adnate to receptacle, ± 2-several-celled. Fr. globose to broad-cylindric. Hemiparasitic shrubs with us. opp., coriac. lvs. About 50 spp. from India to Malaya, Polynesia, Australia. The N.Z. spp. endemic.

Key

1
Tepals splitting to base
2
Tepals remaining united to ± middle, except sts for a dorsal split to base
3
2
Infl. 3-10-fld; tepals 3·5-5 cm. long; lamina (3)-4-6-(8) × (2)-3-4-(5) cm.
1. colensoi
Infl. 1-4-fld; tepals not > c. 2.5 cm. long; lamina (1)-1·5-3·5 × (0·5)-1-1·5-(2) cm
2. tetrapetala
3
Infl. 2-4-fld; tepals reddish, 3·5-5 cm. long; lvs (3)-4-7-(8) × (2)-3-4-(5) cm.
3. adamsii
Infl. (5)-10-15-fld; tepals orange-yellow, not > 2 cm. long; lvs (2)-3-5-(6·5) × (0·5)-0.7-1-(1·5) cm.
4. flavida
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