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Pterophylla sylvicola (Sol. ex A.Cunn.) Pillon & H.C.Hopkins

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Pterophylla sylvicola (Sol. ex A.Cunn.) Pillon & H.C.Hopkins in Pillon et al., Amer. J. Bot. 108: 19 (2021)
Pterophylla sylvicola (Sol. ex A.Cunn.) Pillon & H.C.Hopkins

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New Zealand
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(Sol. ex A.Cunn.) Pillon & H.C.Hopkins
A.Cunn.
Pillon & H.C.Hopkins
2021
19
ICN
species
Pterophylla sylvicola

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sylvicola

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Tree up to 15 m. tall or more; trunk up to 1 m. diam.; young branchlets, petioles, peduncles and pedicels ± densely pilose-pubescent. Lvs of seedlings simple to 5-jugate, some pairs trifoliolate, membr.; lflts up to 3 × 1 cm., elliptic to elliptic-obovate in outline, incised-serrate. Lvs of juveniles and of reversion shoots up to 10-jugate, membr.; lflts ovate-elliptic to elliptic or elliptic-oblong, acute to subacute; terminal lflt up to 8 × 3 cm., on petiolule c. 1 cm. long; lateral subsessile, diminishing downward from 6 × 3 cm. to 2.5 × 2 cm. Lvs of adults of two main forms (intermediate forms not infrequent): (a) lflts mostly obtuse, 3-5-foliolate, rarely simple, coriac., bluntly crenate-serrate to serrate, obovate-oblong to broad-elliptic or elliptic; terminal lflt 4-6 × 2-3 cm., on petiolule c. 1 cm. long; lateral 4-3 × 2 cm.;- (b) lvs 3-5-foliolate, rarely simple, coriac., lflts mostly acute to subacute, serrate to crenate-serrate, elliptic; terminal lflt 4-7 × 2-3 cm., lateral 7-4 × 3-2 cm. Racemes 8-12 cm. long, many-fld, pedicels 2-3 mm. long, ∞ axis; sepals c. 1 mm. long, narrow-ovate to subulate-obtuse, persistent; petals c. 1·5 cm. long, ovate to oblong, white to pale rose; stamens exserted; styles 2.5-4 mm. long, persistent. Capsules 4-5 cm. long, glab. or nearly so; seeds with tuft of hairs at apex and base.

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Pterophylla sylvicola (Sol. ex A.Cunn.) Pillon & H.C.Hopkins
Pterophylla sylvicola (Sol. ex A.Cunn.) Pillon & H.C.Hopkins
Pterophylla sylvicola (Sol. ex A.Cunn.) Pillon & H.C.Hopkins
Weinmannia sylvicola Sol. ex A.Cunn.
Pterophylla sylvicola (Sol. ex A.Cunn.) Pillon & H.C.Hopkins

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Pterophylla sylvicola (Sol. ex A.Cunn.) Pillon & H.C.Hopkins
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Pterophylla sylvicola (Sol. ex A.Cunn.) Pillon & H.C.Hopkins
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North Auckland

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6d9a56a9-e458-4da6-b6d0-e998874dbb2f
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22 July 2021
22 July 2021
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