Paratrophis smithii Cheeseman

Details

Name scientific

Paratrophis smithii Cheeseman, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 20: 148 (1887 [1888])

Preferred name

Paratrophis smithii Cheeseman

Taxonomy reference

Gardner, E.M.; Garner, M.; Cowan, R.; Dodsworth, S.; Epitawalage, N.; Arifiani, D.; Sahromi; Baker, W.J.; Forest, F.; Maurin, O.; Zerega,N.J.C.; Monro, A.K.; Hipp, A.L. 2021: Repeated parallel losses of inflexed stamens in Moraceae: Phylogenomics and generic revision of the tribe Moreae and the reinstatement of the tribe Olmedieae (Moraceae). Taxon 70(5): 946–988.

Linked name

Paratrophis smithii Cheeseman 1887 [1888]

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Original authors

Cheeseman

Authors

Cheeseman

Publication place

Cheeseman, T.F. 1888 ("1887"): Notes on the Three Kings Islands. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 20: 141–150.

Year published

1887

Year on publication

1888

Publication page

148

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Paratrophis smithii Cheeseman

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Paratrophis smithii

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Rosales

Family

Moraceae

Genus

Paratrophis

Species

smithii

Vernacular names

Language of use: English

Synonyms

Streblus smithii (Cheeseman) Corner

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.