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Pittosporum ralphii Kirk

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Pittosporum ralphii Kirk, Trans. New Zealand Inst. 3: 161 (1871)
Pittosporum ralphii Kirk
Cooper, R.C. 1956: The Australian and New Zealand species of Pittosporum. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 43: 87–188.
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New Zealand
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Kirk
Kirk
Kirk, T. 1871: On the Flora of the Isthmus of Auckland and the Takapuna District. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute 3: 148–161.
1871
161
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Pittosporum ralphii Kirk
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Pittosporum ralphii

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Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Apiales
Pittosporaceae
Pittosporum
ralphii

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

Pittosporum ralphii Kirk

Shrub with spreading branches up to c. 4 m. tall; bark dark brown; branchlets, lvs below, petioles and peduncles densely clad in white to buff tomentum. Lamina coriac., 7·5-12.5 × 2.5-5·5 cm., on petiole ± 1·5-2 cm. long; elliptic- to obovate-oblong, obtuse to acute, rather abruptly narrowed to petiole. Umbels terminal, 3-10-fld; peduncles c. 1·5 cm. long. Sepals narrow-ovate to subulate, 5-7 mm. long; petals narrow-oblong, c. 1 cm. long, dark red. Capsules broad-ovoid, 3-valved, c. 1·5 cm. long, pubescent, on slender pedicels.
Dawson, M.I. 2008: Index of chromosome numbers of indigenous New Zealand vascular plants.

Pittosporum ralphii Kirk

2n = 24

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Pittosporum ralphii Kirk
Pittosporum ralphii Kirk
Allan, H.H. (1961)
Pittosporum ralphii Kirk
Pittosporum ralphii Kirk
Cooper, R.C. (1956)
Pittosporum ralphii Kirk
Pittosporum ralphii Kirk
Pittosporum ralphii Kirk
Dawson, M.I. (2008)
Pittosporum Banks & Sol. ex Gaertn.
Pittosporum ralphii Kirk
Pittosporum ralphii Kirk
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R. et al. (2013)
Pittosporum ralphii Kirk
Pittosporum ralphii Kirk
Pittosporum ralphii Kirk
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R. et al. (2018)
Pittosporum ralphii Kirk

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Pittosporum ralphii Kirk
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284d0769-afc1-479f-a85a-1781eb3aa57f
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1 January 2000
21 June 2007
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