Click for help
Download Copy a link to this page Cite this record

Pittosporum cornifolium A.Cunn.

Scientific name record
Names_Plants record source
Is NZ relevant
This is the current name
This record has collections
This record has descriptions
This is indigenous
Threat status: Not threatened
Show more

Click to collapse Details Info

Pittosporum cornifolium A.Cunn. in Hooker, Bot. Mag. 59, t. 3161 (1832)
Pittosporum cornifolium A.Cunn.
James, C.J.; de Lange, P.J. 2024: A taxonomic re-evaluation of Pittosporum roimata Gemmill & S.N. Carter (Pittosporaceae, Apiales). Ukrainian Botanical Journal 81(5): 307–321.
Names_Fungi record source Pittosporum cornifolium A.Cunn. 1832

Click to collapse Biostatus Info

Endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region

Click to collapse Nomenclature Info

A.Cunn.
A.Cunn.
Hooker, W.J (ed.) 1832: Curtis's Botanical Magazine or flower garden displayed, in which the most ornamental foreign plants cultivated in the open ground, green-house, and the stove, are accurately represented and coloured. Vol. 59. London.
1832
t. 3161
ICN
Pittosporum cornifolium A.Cunn.
species
Pittosporum cornifolium
see James & de Lange 2024

Click to collapse Classification Info

Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Apiales
Pittosporaceae
Pittosporum
cornifolium

Click to collapse Vernacular names Info

Click to collapse Descriptions Info

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

Pittosporum cornifolium A.Cunn.

Openly branched shrub up to 2 m. tall, us. less, mainly epiphytic or on rocks, branchlets often subwhorled, ± pubescent when young. Lvs mostly in whorls of 3-5, thinly coriac., lamina 3·5-7·5 X 1·5-3·5 cm., on very short petioles or subsessile; obovate-cuneate to obovate-elliptic or subrhomboidal, acute. Fls functionally polygamodioec., in terminal umbels of 3-5; ♀ us. not > 3. Sepals subulate to linear-lanceolate, acuminate, c. 4·5 mm. long; petals subulate, acuminate, c. 1 cm. long, light red or yellowish. Capsules c. 1·5 cm. diam., broadly ovoid to obovoid, 2-3-valved; valves woody, finely granulate, us. bright orange-yellow within, twisting when open.
Dawson, M.I. 2008: Index of chromosome numbers of indigenous New Zealand vascular plants.

Pittosporum cornifolium A.Cunn.

2n = 24

Click to collapse Taxonomic concepts Info

Pittosporum cornifolium A.Cunn.
Pittosporum cornifolium A.Cunn.
Allan, H.H. (1961)
Pittosporum cornifolium A.Cunn.
Pittosporum cornifolium A.Cunn.
Dawson, M.I. (2008)
Pittosporum Banks & Sol. ex Gaertn.
Pittosporum cornifolium A.Cunn.
Pittosporum cornifolium A.Cunn.
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R. et al. (2013)
Pittosporum cornifolium A.Cunn.
Pittosporum cornifolium A.Cunn.
Pittosporum cornifolium A.Cunn.
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R. et al. (2018)
Pittosporum cornifolium A.Cunn.
Pittosporum cornifolium A.Cunn.
Pittosporum cornifolium A.Cunn.
James, C.J.; de Lange, P.J. (2024)
Pittosporum roimata Gemmill & S.N.Carter
Pittosporum roimata Gemmill & S.N.Carter
Carter, S.N.; Miller, S.; Meyer, S.J.; Gemmill, C.E.C. (2018)
Pittosporum roimata Gemmill & S.N.Carter
Pittosporum roimata Gemmill & S.N.Carter
Pittosporum roimata Gemmill & S.N.Carter
James, C.J.; de Lange, P.J. (2024)
Pittosporum cornifolium A.Cunn.

Click to collapse Collections Info

Pittosporum cornifolium A.Cunn.
[Not available]
1 Link to an external page
Pittosporum cornifolium A.Cunn.
New Zealand
2 Link to an external page
Pittosporum cornifolium A.Cunn.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
1 Link to an external page
Pittosporum cornifolium A.Cunn.
New Zealand
Gisborne Land District
4 Link to an external page
Pittosporum cornifolium A.Cunn.
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
3 Link to an external page
Pittosporum cornifolium A.Cunn.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
22 Link to an external page
Pittosporum cornifolium A.Cunn.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
56 Link to an external page
Pittosporum cornifolium A.Cunn.
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
8 Link to an external page
Pittosporum cornifolium A.Cunn.
New Zealand
Taranaki Land District
4 Link to an external page
Pittosporum cornifolium A.Cunn.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
25 Link to an external page
Pittosporum cornifolium A.Cunn.
New Zealand
Westland Land District
1 Link to an external page
Pittosporum roimata Gemmill & S.N.Carter
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
2 Link to an external page
Pittosporum roimata Gemmill & S.N.Carter
New Zealand
Taranaki Land District
1 Link to an external page

Click to collapse Metadata Info

3f806dc1-689a-4ba1-8577-f0b1fe1f17db
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
21 January 2025
Click to go back to the top of the page
Top