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Pseudopanax ferox Kirk

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Pseudopanax ferox Kirk, Forest. Fl. New Zealand 35, t. 23-26 (1889)
Pseudopanax ferox Kirk

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Endemic
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New Zealand
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Kirk
Kirk
1889
35, t. 23-26
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Pseudopanax ferox

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ferox

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Pseudopanax ferox Kirk

Shrub or tree up to 5 m. tall, with slender trunk. Lvs of seedlings about linear-lanceolate, toothed; of unbranched juveniles narrow-linear, deflexed, up to c. 50 cm. long, very thick and coriac., with closely or distantly placed broad, rounded, us. hooked, lobes, c. 7·5-15 mm. wide at base; midribs very stout, raised, c. 2 mm. wide; lobes often crowded at lf-apex. Lvs at branching stage becoming shorter, ascending, often more sharply lobed, passing into those of adult stage. Lvs of adults c. 5-15 × 1-2 cm., oblong to linear-obovate, gradually narrowed to stout petiole c. 1-2 cm. long; obtuse or mucronate-apiculate to retuse, bluntly serrate to entire, veins evident above. Umbels terminal, compound; staminate with 5-12 rays c. 3-5 cm. long, with fls racemosely distributed; pistillate with rays 1-3 cm. long, umbellules 2-5-fld. Stamens 4-5, ovary 5-loculed, 5-ovuled; style-branches 5, connate, sts free at tips. Fr. broad-oblong in outline, c. 8-9 mm. diam.

Pseudopanax ferox Kirk

2n = 48
2n = 48

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Panax ferox Kirk
Pseudopanax ferox Kirk
Pseudopanax ferox Kirk
Pseudopanax ferox Kirk
Pseudopanax ferox Kirk
Pseudopanax ferox Kirk
Pseudopanax ferox Kirk
Pseudopanax ferox Kirk
Pseudopanax ferox Kirk
Pseudopanax ferox Kirk
Pseudopanax ferox Kirk
Pseudopanax ferox Kirk
Pseudopanax ferox Kirk
Pseudopanax ferox Kirk
Pseudopanax ferox Kirk
Pseudopanax ferox Kirk
Pseudopanax ferox Kirk
Pseudopanax ferox Kirk

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Pseudopanax ferox Kirk
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editorial
Wrongly attributed to P. crassifolium by Buchanan in T.N.Z.I. 9, 1877, 529, t. 20

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1 January 2000
5 April 2004
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