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Melicytus J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.

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Indigenous, non-endemic
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New Zealand
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J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
1776
123
ICN
Melicytus J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
genus
Melicytus

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Melicytus

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Fls small, regular, perfect or unisexual, solitary or fascicled, axillary and/or on branchlets below lvs. Calyx deeply 5-lobed, or sepals united only at very base; petals 5; anthers 5, subsessile, connate, joined by membrane, which is produced above anthers into 5 triangular ± fimbriate teeth; nectariferous scale or sac dorsal. Styles 2-(3-4)-fid; fr. baccate, with (1)-2-(3-4) strophiolate seeds, endosperm plentiful. Slender to rigid shrubs; bark lenticellate; lvs alt. or fasciculate, with somewhat thickened margins and minute, fugaceous stipules. About 10 spp. of N.Z., Australia, Tasmania, Norfolk Id. The N.Z. spp. endemic, except perhaps the sp. referred to

Melicytus J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.

Plant dioec.; fls small, regular, fascicled (occ. solitary) the fascicles axillary or on branchlets below lvs; pedicels with a pair of minute bracts. Calyx 5-lobed or toothed; petals 5, spreading; anthers 5, sessile, free or united by toothed membrane; nectariferous scale or sac dorsal on anther or membrane. Ovary 1-celled; placentae 3-5, parietal; style (2)-3- 6-fid, or stigma subsessile, lobed. Berry with few black ± angled seeds. Trees or shrubs with alt., minutely stipulate lvs. Genus of 4 spp., of which M. ramiflorus extends to Norfolk, Tonga and Fiji Islands.

Melicytus J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.

2n = 64, 80
2n = 32
n = irregular
2n = 64
2n = 64
n = 32
2n = 64
2n = 64
n = 16 bivalents
2n = 32
2n = 48
n = 32

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Hymenanthera R.Br.
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Australia
Tasmania
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
New Zealand
Otago Land District
New Zealand
Southland Land District
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New Zealand
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New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
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Marlborough Land District
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New Zealand
Nelson Land District
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New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
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Otago Land District
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South Auckland Land District
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Southland Land District
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Taranaki Land District
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New Zealand
Wellington Land District
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New Zealand
Westland Land District

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8b695300-9fb6-4235-bf73-62ed4ddb71d1
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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
5 January 2018
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