Pittosporum huttonianum Kirk
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Pittosporum huttonianum Kirk, Trans. New Zealand Inst. 2: 92 (1870)
Pittosporum huttonianum Kirk
Nomenclature
Kirk
Kirk
1870
92
ICN
Pittosporum huttonianum Kirk
species
Pittosporum huttonianum
Classification
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Descriptions
Pittosporum huttonianum Kirk
Rather sparingly branched shrub or tree up to 8 m. tall; bark black; branchlets slender, clad when young in white cobwebby or floccose tomentum, as are young lvs. Lvs alt., coriac., lamina 7·5-12.5 × 4-5 cm., on slender petioles 1-2 cm. long; elliptic to broad-elliptic to obovate-oblong, subacute to obtuse. Fls axillary, solitary or in 2-5-fld axillary and terminal clusters; peduncles slender, white-tomentose, up to 2 cm. long. Sepals 6-7 mm. long, subulate to lanceolate, acuminate, white-pubescent on back; petals up to 1 cm. long, oblong-ligulate, dark red. Capsules subglobose to obovoid; white-downy when young, c. 1·5-2 cm. long, 3-valved, rarely 2-valved, on pedicels 1-2 cm. long.
Pittosporum huttonianum Kirk
2n = 24
Taxonomic concepts
Pittosporum huttonianum Kirk
Pittosporum huttonianum Kirk
Pittosporum huttonianum Kirk
Pittosporum huttonianum Kirk
Pittosporum huttonianum Kirk
Pittosporum huttonianum Kirk
Pittosporum huttonianum Kirk
Pittosporum huttonianum Kirk
Pittosporum huttonianum Kirk
Pittosporum huttonianum Kirk
Pittosporum huttonianum Kirk
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1 January 2000
21 June 2007