Litsea calicaris (Sol. ex A.Cunn.) Benth. & Hook.f. ex Kirk

Details

Name scientific

Litsea calicaris (Sol. ex A.Cunn.) Benth. & Hook.f. ex Kirk, Forest. Fl. New Zealand 15, t. 10 (1889)

Preferred name

Litsea calicaris (Sol. ex A.Cunn.) Benth. & Hook.f. ex Kirk

Taxonomy reference

Allan, H.H. 1961: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. I. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledones. Government Printer, Wellington.

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Combination authors

Kirk

Original authors

A.Cunn.

Authors

(Sol. ex A.Cunn.) Benth. & Hook.f. ex Kirk

Publication place

Kirk, T. 1889: The forest flora of New Zealand. Wellington, N.Z.

Year published

1889

Publication page

15, t. 10

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Laurus calicaris Sol. ex A.Cunn.

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Litsea calicaris

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Laurales

Family

Lauraceae

Genus

Litsea

Species

calicaris

Vernacular names

Language of use: English

Language of use: Māori

Synonyms

Descriptions

Allan, H.H. 1961: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. I. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledones. Government Printer, Wellington.

Litsea calicaris (Sol. ex A.Cunn.) Benth. & Hook.f. ex Kirk

Description

Tree up to 12m. tall; trunk up to 8 dm. diam.; bark dark. Lvs alt., subcoriac., on petioles up to 2 cm. long; lamina 5-12.5 × 3-5 cm., ovate to oval to ovate-elliptic, obtuse to subacute, glab., ± glaucous below. Umbels 4-5-fld, involucrate, axillary, racemosely arranged; pedicels slightly hairy. Per. segs 5-8, creamy, oblong to ovate, 4-5 mm. long. Stamens c. 12; filaments slender, biglandular; staminodes flattened, biglandular; stigma dilated, irregularly 3-lobed. Drupe subovoid, c. 15-20mm. long, seated in enlarged per. tube; mesocarp reddish.

Dawson, M.I. 2008: Index of chromosome numbers of indigenous New Zealand vascular plants.