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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.

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Endemic
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New Zealand
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Hook.f.
Hook.f.
1852
22, t. 10
ICN
Pittosporum rigidum Hook.f.
species
Pittosporum rigidum

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rigidum

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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.

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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.
Pittosporum rigidum Hook.f.

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Pittosporum rigidum Hook.f.
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Pittosporum rigidum Hook.f.
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North-western
Pittosporum rigidum Hook.f.
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Ruahine-Cook

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6d730bd7-3a4c-4105-a76c-55621431074d
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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
26 June 2007
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