Melicytus crassifolius (Hook.f.) Garn.-Jones
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Melicytus crassifolius (Hook.f.) Garn.-Jones, New Zealand J. Bot. 25: 128 (1987)
Melicytus crassifolius (Hook.f.) Garn.-Jones
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(Hook.f.) Garn.-Jones
Hook.f.
Garn.-Jones
1987
128
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Melicytus crassifolius
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Low-growing spreading to erect dioec. shrub, sts as much as 2 m. tall; branchlets divaricating, ± pubescent, stout to slender, sts spinous at tips. Lvs coriac., solitary or fascicled, on petioles 2-4 mm. long; lamina (5 mm.)-1-2 cm. × (3)-4-7 mm.; narrowly obovate-oblong to spathulate, obtuse to retuse, cuneately narrowed to base; margins ± revolute, entire or occ. obtusely toothed or lobed. Fls ± 3 mm. diam., solitary or 2-3 together; bracts us. near middle of straight or recurved pedicel. Sepals suborbicular, margins fimbriate; petals narrow-oblong, revolute at apex, lemon-yellow, ± 3 mm. long. Anther membrane with 5 narrow triangular processes, scale broad; style 2-fid. Berry 3-5 mm. diam., broadly cylindric to subglobose; seeds (1)-2.
Taxonomic concepts
Hymenanthera crassifolia Hook.f.
Melicytus crassifolius (Hook.f.) Garn.-Jones
Melicytus crassifolius (Hook.f.) Garn.-Jones
Melicytus crassifolius (Hook.f.) Garn.-Jones
Melicytus crassifolius (Hook.f.) Garn.-Jones
Melicytus crassifolius (Hook.f.) Garn.-Jones
Melicytus crassifolius (Hook.f.) Garn.-Jones
Melicytus crassifolius (Hook.f.) Garn.-Jones
Melicytus crassifolius (Hook.f.) Garn.-Jones
Melicytus crassifolius (Hook.f.) Garn.-Jones
Melicytus crassifolius (Hook.f.) Garn.-Jones
Melicytus crassifolius (Hook.f.) Garn.-Jones
Melicytus crassifolius (Hook.f.) Garn.-Jones
Melicytus crassifolius (Hook.f.) Garn.-Jones
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1 January 2000
19 February 2004