Nothofagus truncata (Colenso) Cockayne
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Nothofagus truncata (Colenso) Cockayne, New Zealand State Forest Bull., 21 (1926)
Nomenclature
(Colenso) Cockayne
Colenso
Cockayne
1926
21
ICN
species
Nothofagus truncata
Classification
Vernacular names
Descriptions
Nothofagus truncata (Colenso) Cockayne
Tree up to 30 m. tall; trunk up to 2 m. diam. or more, often buttressed. Lvs thick, coriac., 25-35 × 20 mm., on petioles 2-3 mm. long; lamina glab. or nearly so, broad-ovate to elliptic-oblong to subrotund, cuneate at base; coarsely, shallowly, bluntly serrate, with 8-12 pairs of teeth; venation distinct. Domatia very rare. Staminate infls 1-8 per branchlet; peduncles up to 10 mm. long, sparsely pubescent; fls 1-3, subsessile. Per. campanulate, 4 mm. long, shallowly obtusely 5-lobed. Stamens 10-13; anthers 3 mm. long, yellow or dark orange. Pistillate infls 1-5 per branchlet, sessile, ovoid, 2-3 mm. long, sparsely pubescent. Fls as in , but stigmas less distinctly bilobed. Cupule up to 10 mm. long, 4-partite, segs acute, glands as in . Nuts puberulous, 8 mm. long.
Taxonomic concepts
Nothofagus truncata (Colenso) Cockayne
Nothofagus truncata (Colenso) Cockayne
Nothofagus truncata (Colenso) Cockayne
Nothofagus truncata (Colenso) Cockayne
Nothofagus truncata (Colenso) Cockayne
Nothofagus truncata (Colenso) Cockayne
Nothofagus truncata (Colenso) Cockayne
Nothofagus truncata (Colenso) Cockayne
Nothofagus truncata (Colenso) Cockayne
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Notes
editorial
Govaerts & Frodin (1999) placed N. truncata in synonymy of Nothofagus fusca var. colensoi (Hooker 1853: 229) Cheeseman (1906: 641). This treatment is incomprehensible and contradicts the available ecological, morphological and genetic evidence on the distinctiveness of F. fusca and F. truncata and is therefore not accepted here or elsewhere (e.g., Allan 1961, Wardle 1984, Mark & Lee 1985, Haase 1990, 1992, Dawson & Lucas 2011).
Metadata
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scientific name
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1 January 2000
13 August 2015