Heenan, P.B.; de Lange, P.J.; Glenny, D.S.; Breitwieser, I.; Brownsey, P.J.; Ogle, C.C. 1999: Checklist of dicotyledons, gymnosperms, and pteridophytes naturalised or casual in New Zealand: additional records 1997–1998. New Zealand Journal of Botany 37(4): 629–642.
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Heenan, P.B.; de Lange, P.J.; Glenny, D.S.; Breitwieser, I.; Brownsey, P.J.; Ogle, C.C. 1999: Checklist of dicotyledons, gymnosperms, and pteridophytes naturalised or casual in New Zealand: additional records 1997–1998. New Zealand Journal of Botany 37(4): 629–642.
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Taxonomic concepts
Olea europaea subsp. africana (Mill.) P.S.Green
Olea europaea subsp. cuspidata (A.Wall ex G.Don) Cif.
Psophocarpus tetragonolobus (L.) DC.
Descriptions
DESCRIPTION: Evergreen large shrub or small tree up to 10 m, often forming dense swards from root suckers. Branchlets drooping. Leaves 20–55 x 5 – 22 mm, alternate, narrowly lanceolate to elliptic , green, glabrous, glossy, bluntly toothed, base cuneate, apex acute to subacuminate; petioles 3–6 mm long. Flowers in few-flowered axillary clusters or solitary, green. Capsule 2-valved, valves 4–5 mm long. Seeds 4.5–5.0 x c. 2.5 mm, chestnut brown, surface longitudinally ridged, immersed in arils.
DISTRIBUTION: Canterbury, Manawatu, Wanganui, and Poverty Bay.
HABITATS: Occurs in the understorey of open native bush, among scrub and grasses, and in cultivated gardens and arboreta.
FIRST RECORD: Webb et al. (1988, p. 512), where it is treated as a zeta entry based on collections from Canterbury (e.g., CHR 437348, W.R. Sykes 437/86, Port Hills; CHR 437248, W.R. Sykes 95/86, Banks Peninsula, Church Bay).
ADDITIONAL RECORDS: CHR 513040, W. R. Sykes 120/96,24 Apr 1996, Canterbury, Banks Peninsula, Governors Bay; CHR 483973, W.R. Sykes 301/93, 2 Nov 1993, Canterbury, Charteris Bay; CHR 437348, W.R. Sykes 437/86, 6 Dec 1986, Canterbury, Port Hills, Nicholson Park; CHR 483815, W.R. Sykes 214/93, 30 Apr 1993, Manawatu, Manawatu Plains, Bulls; CHR 463199, W.R. Sykes 339/89, 19 Jun 1989, Poverty Bay, near Ngatapa; CHR 515043, C.C. Ogle 3323, 8 Nov 1997, Wanganui, St Johns Hill.
REGION OF ORIGIN: South America.
NOTES: Spreading aggressively by root suckers and seed.
Cited scientific names
- Brachyscome iberidifolia Benth.
- Kleinia serpens G.Rowley
- Limonium companyonis Kuntze
- Lotus tetragonolobus L.
- Maytenus boaria Molina
- Maytenus Molina
- Myricaria germanica (L.) Desv.
- Olea europaea subsp. africana (Mill.) P.S.Green
- Olea europaea subsp. cuspidata (Wall. ex G.Don) Cif.
- Picris hieracioides L.
- Psophocarpus tetragonolobus (L.) DC.
- Pteris dentata Forssk.
Metadata
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