Pittosporum rigidum Hook.f.
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Pittosporum rigidum Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 22, t. 10 (1852)
Pittosporum rigidum Hook.f.
Nomenclature
Hook.f.
Hook.f.
1852
22, t. 10
ICN
Pittosporum rigidum Hook.f.
species
Pittosporum rigidum
Classification
Descriptions
Pittosporum rigidum Hook.f.
Densely branched shrub up to c. 3 m. tall, us. less; branchlets stout, not or hardly divaricate, ± densely clad when young in ferruginous to pale hairs. Lvs of juveniles entire to irregularly lobed or rarely pinnatifid. Lvs of adults (often mixed with lvs of semi-juvenile form) alt. or some in alt. fascicles on short arrested branchlets, 8-10 × 5-8 mm., on slender petioles c. 2 mm. long, coriac., elliptic-obovate to broadly elliptic, entire to obscurely sinuate-dentate. Fls axillary, solitary; sepals ovate, obtuse to acute, ciliate; petals very dark red, linear-oblong, subacute. Capsules 5-8 × 5-7 mm., ovoid to subglobose, subcordate at base, downy when young, finely to rather coarsely granulate, style base c. 2 mm. long; seeds 6-12 or reduced to c. 4 in stunted plants.
Branchlets slender; lvs c. 15-25 × 4-10 mm., elliptic to obovate-cuneate, less coriac.; sepals narrow-ovate, acuminate,. 4-5 mm. long; petals c. 1 cm. long.
Pittosporum rigidum Hook.f.
2n = 24
Taxonomic concepts
Pittosporum rigidum Hook.f.
Pittosporum rigidum Hook.f.
Pittosporum rigidum Hook.f.
Pittosporum rigidum Hook.f.
Pittosporum rigidum Hook.f.
Pittosporum rigidum Hook.f.
Pittosporum rigidum Hook.f.
Pittosporum rigidum Hook.f.
Pittosporum rigidum Hook.f. var. rigidum
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1 January 2000
26 June 2007