Streblus smithii (Cheeseman) Corner

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Name scientific

Streblus smithii (Cheeseman) Corner, 19: 221 (1962)

Preferred name

Streblus smithii (Cheeseman) Corner

Taxonomy reference

Connor, H.E.; Edgar, E. 1987: Name changes in the indigenous New Zealand flora, 1960–1986 and Nomina Nova IV, 1983–1986. New Zealand Journal of Botany 25: 115–170.

Linked name

Streblus smithii (Cheeseman) Corner 1962

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Authors

(Cheeseman) Corner

Original authors

Cheeseman

Combination authors

Corner

Publication place

Corner, E.J.H. 1962: The Classification of Moraceae. The Gardens’ Bulletin Singapore 19: 187–252.

Year published

1962

Publication page

221

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Paratrophis smithii Cheeseman

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Streblus smithii

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Rosales

Family

Moraceae

Genus

Streblus

Species

smithii

Vernacular names

Language of use: English

Synonyms

Paratrophis smithii Cheeseman

Descriptions

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

Paratrophis smithii Cheeseman

Description

Shrub or tree up to 5 m. tall; bark dark brown; branchlets slender, flexuous; lenticels ∞. Lvs entire, dark green, coriac., 10-20 cm. long, up to 12 cm. wide, on stout petioles up to 15 mm. long; lamina ovate- to elliptic-oblong, obtuse to subacute, rounded to obliquely cordate at base; stipules lanceolate, caducous. Spikes solitary or paired, 5-12 cm. long, per.-segs 3-4 mm. diam., pubescent on back. ♂ with spreading segs; ♀ minute, in 2 irregular dense rows on flattened axis, segs appressed. Drupe globose, bright red, 8-9 mm. diam.

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