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Carpodetus serratus J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.

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Carpodetus serratus J.R.Forst. & G.Forst., Char. Gen. Pl., ed. 2. 34, t. 17 (1776)
Carpodetus serratus J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
Allan, H.H. 1961: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. I. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledones. Government Printer, Wellington.
Names_Fungi record source Carpodetus serratus J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.

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New Zealand
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J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
Forster, J.R.; Forster, G. 1776: Characteres Generum Plantarum quas in Itinere ad Insulas Maris Australis Collegerunt, Descripserunt, Delinearunt, Annis. Edition 2. White, Cadell & Elmsley, London.
1776
34, t. 17
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Carpodetus serratus J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
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Carpodetus serratus

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Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Asterales
Rousseaceae
Carpodetus
serratus

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

Carpodetus serratus J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.

Tree up to 10 m. tall; trunk up to 2 dm. or more diam.; sts flowering in semi-juvenile state. Juvenile plants and reversion shoots with slender, zigzag, almost divaricate branchlets; lvs 1-3 × 1-2 cm., on petioles up to 1 cm. long; lamina broad-ovate to broad-elliptic to suborbicular, membr., sts irregularly lobed. Young branchlets, petioles, peduncles and pedicels pubescent; lenticels prominent. Lvs of adults 4-6 × 2-3 cm., on slender petioles c. 1 cm. long; lamina thinly coriac., ovate-elliptic to broad-elliptic, acute to obtuse, often mottled, rather distantly finely serrate. Panicles up to 5 cm. long and broad; fls 5-6 mm. across; calyx-lobes c. 1 mm. long, triangular-attenuate; petals white, ovate, 3-4 mm. long. Capsules ind., subglobose, c. 4-6 mm. diam.; integument subfleshy, black when mature; girt by rim of calyx-tube or receptacle.
Dawson, M.I. 2008: Index of chromosome numbers of indigenous New Zealand vascular plants.

Carpodetus serratus J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.

2n = 30

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Carpodetus serratus J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
Carpodetus serratus J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
Allan, H.H. (1961)
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Dawson, M.I. (2008)
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de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R. et al. (2013)
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Carpodetus serratus J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R. et al. (2018)
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Carpodetus serratus J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
New Zealand
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New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
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New Zealand
Gisborne Land District
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New Zealand
Hawke's Bay Land District
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Marlborough Land District
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New Zealand
Nelson Land District
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North Auckland Land District
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Otago Land District
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South Auckland Land District
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Southland Land District
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Taranaki Land District
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Wellington Land District
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Westland Land District
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5510bab9-4e93-46ce-a02b-f3c822b2960a
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1 January 2000
24 June 2025
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