We value your privacy

We use cookies and other technologies to enhance your experience, analyse site usage, help with reporting, and assist in other ways to improve the website. You can choose to allow cookies and other technologies or decline. Your choice will not affect site functionality.

Download Copy a link to this page Cite this record

Alseuosmia ×quercifolia A.Cunn.

Scientific name record
Names_Plants record source
This is a synonym
This record has collections
This record has descriptions

Click to collapse Nomenclature Info

A.Cunn.
A.Cunn.
1839
ICN
Alseuosmia ×quercifolia A.Cunn.
species
Alseuosmia ×quercifolia

Click to collapse Classification Info

×quercifolia

Click to collapse Hybridisation Info

Alseuosmia banksii A.Cunn. × Alseuosmia macrophylla A.Cunn.

Click to collapse Descriptions Info

Alseuosmia ×quercifolia A.Cunn.

Slender, sparingly branched shrub up to 2.5 m tall. Old stems dark reddish brown; branchlets spreading; bracts present; stems and petioles of new growth distinctively crimson-red. Fine ginger hairs present in leaf axils. Leaves on rather slender, crimson-red, or occasionally pale brown petioles 1 cm long becoming reddish brown with age; lamina submembranous, ovate-elliptic, linear-lanceolate, moderately shiny, bright mid green above with a pale mid-vein, glaucous below; margins sub-entire, weakly dentate to coarsely and distantly lobed, the different forms occasionally on the same plant. Inflorescence of 2-6 fascicles or flowers solitary. Peduncle slender, 5 mm long, greenish, bracteolate. Calyx lobes (3-)5(-6), triangular, acute. Flowers hermaphrodite, very fragrant, protandrous; corolla tube (7.7-)11(--13.7) mm long, slightly flaring, cream, creamy green, pale dusky pink, dark dusky pink, and variations of these; lobes (3-)5(-6), acute, often recurved and often with fimbriate margins. Style slender, cream to pink, glabrous; stigma clavate, usually exserted. Anthers creamy white on short filaments inserted in corolla throat, dehiscing longitudinally and curving outwards after dehiscence. Pollen grains 3-aperturate, colporate. Berry ellipsoid, dark plum-red when ripe, 2.8- 9.7 mm long. Seeds with bony reticulate testa, endospermic, angular. Ovary 2-locular, glabrous; ovules 1-15 per locule; placentation axile. FL Sep-Oct; FT Mar-May.

Click to collapse Taxonomic concepts Info

Alseuosmia ×quercifolia A.Cunn.
Alseuosmia ×quercifolia A.Cunn.
Alseuosmia ×quercifolia A.Cunn.
Alseuosmia ×quercifolia A.Cunn.
Alseuosmia ×quercifolia A.Cunn.

Click to collapse Collections Info

Alseuosmia ×quercifolia A.Cunn.
New Zealand
Alseuosmia ×quercifolia A.Cunn.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District

Click to collapse Metadata Info

56f44664-79b4-49fb-b619-f2fb63ef07ea
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
30 October 2023
Click to go back to the top of the page
Top