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Melicytus novae-zelandiae (A.Cunn.) P.S.Green

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Melicytus novae-zelandiae (A.Cunn.) P.S.Green, J. Arnold Arbor. 51: 219 (1970)
Melicytus novae-zelandiae (A.Cunn.) P.S.Green

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region

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(A.Cunn.) P.S.Green
A.Cunn.
P.S.Green
1970
219
ICN
species
Melicytus novae-zelandiae

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novae-zelandiae

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Stout dioec. shrub up to 3 m. tall. Lvs on petioles up to 5 mm. long, subcoriac., broadly obovate-oblong to broad-elliptic, obtuse, (3)-6 × 2-3·5 cm.; margins slightly thickened, ± recurved, sinuate to crenulate, rarely bluntly serrate, rarely subentire. Fls 3-4 mm. diam., fascicled; ♂ often clustered on branches below lvs; pedicels decurved, bracts ± at middle. Sepals ovate, free to near base; petals twice length of sepals, narrow-oblong, revolute at tips; anther membrane produced into 5 triangular, jagged teeth. ♀ smaller, ovary ovoid, style 2-fid. Berry subglobose, (4)-5-(6)mm. diam., purplish. Seeds us. 2, plano-convex; strophiole us. conspicuous.

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Hymenanthera latifolia Kirk
Melicytus novae-zelandiae (A.Cunn.) P.S.Green
Hymenanthera latifolia var. tasmanica Kirk
Melicytus novae-zelandiae (A.Cunn.) P.S.Green
Melicytus novae-zelandiae (A.Cunn.) P.S.Green
Melicytus novae-zelandiae (A.Cunn.) P.S.Green
Melicytus novae-zelandiae (A.Cunn.) P.S.Green
Melicytus novae-zelandiae (A.Cunn.) P.S.Green
Scaevola novae-zelandiae A.Cunn.
Melicytus novae-zelandiae (A.Cunn.) P.S.Green

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Melicytus novae-zelandiae (A.Cunn.) P.S.Green
New Zealand
Melicytus novae-zelandiae (A.Cunn.) P.S.Green
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Melicytus novae-zelandiae (A.Cunn.) P.S.Green
New Zealand
Hawke's Bay Land District
Melicytus novae-zelandiae (A.Cunn.) P.S.Green
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Melicytus novae-zelandiae (A.Cunn.) P.S.Green
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Melicytus novae-zelandiae (A.Cunn.) P.S.Green
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Melicytus novae-zelandiae (A.Cunn.) P.S.Green
New Zealand
Taranaki Land District
Melicytus novae-zelandiae (A.Cunn.) P.S.Green
New Zealand
Wellington Land District

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610eeaf7-7caf-4ed4-a23c-aa6c5ef2ce17
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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
30 April 2008
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