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Pittosporum cornifolium A.Cunn.

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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

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New Zealand
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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
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Pittosporum cornifolium A.Cunn.
species
Pittosporum cornifolium
see James & de Lange 2024

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Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Apiales
Pittosporaceae
Pittosporum
cornifolium

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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

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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.

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Pittosporum cornifolium A.Cunn.
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Canterbury Land District
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Gisborne Land District
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Marlborough Land District
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Nelson Land District
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North Auckland Land District
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South Auckland Land District
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Taranaki Land District
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New Zealand
Wellington Land District
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New Zealand
Westland Land District
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Pittosporum roimata Gemmill & S.N.Carter
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
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Pittosporum roimata Gemmill & S.N.Carter
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Taranaki Land District
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3f806dc1-689a-4ba1-8577-f0b1fe1f17db
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1 January 2000
21 January 2025