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Pittosporum huttonianum Kirk

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Pittosporum huttonianum Kirk, Trans. New Zealand Inst. 2: 92 (1870)
Pittosporum huttonianum Kirk

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Endemic
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New Zealand
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Kirk
Kirk
1870
92
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Pittosporum huttonianum Kirk
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Pittosporum huttonianum

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huttonianum

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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.

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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
Pittosporum huttonianum Kirk
Pittosporum huttonianum Kirk

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Pittosporum huttonianum Kirk
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3a81046f-81ff-42b9-a310-c9caa03079a5
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1 January 2000
21 June 2007
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