Melicytus lanceolatus Hook.f.
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Melicytus lanceolatus Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 18, t. 8 (1852)
Melicytus lanceolatus Hook.f.
Nomenclature
Hook.f.
Hook.f.
1852
18, t. 8
ICN
Melicytus lanceolatus Hook.f.
species
Melicytus lanceolatus
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Descriptions
Melicytus lanceolatus Hook.f.
Slender shrub or tree up to 5 m. tall or more; bark brownish grey; branch- lets brittle. Lvs on slender petioles up to 1·5 cm. long; lamina membr., 5-16 × 0·5-3 cm.; narrow- to rather broad-lanceolate to lanceolate- oblong, us. acuminate, rather finely but bluntly serrate. Infl. of 2-6 fascicled fls on slender, ± decurved pedicels c. 5-10 mm. long; bracts above middle. Fls ± 5 mm. diam.; calyx teeth linear to narrow-oblong, obtuse; petals purplish, recurved at apex. Anthers connected by membrane that is produced above and cut into triangular-attenuate teeth. Style (2)-3-fid, rather long. Berries dark purple, subglobose, 4-6 mm. diam. Seeds 6-12, minutely tuberculate.
Melicytus lanceolatus Hook.f.
2n = 32
Taxonomic concepts
Melicytus lanceolatus Hook.f.
Melicytus lanceolatus Hook.f.
Melicytus lanceolatus Hook.f.
Melicytus lanceolatus Hook.f.
Melicytus lanceolatus Hook.f.
Melicytus lanceolatus Hook.f.
Melicytus lanceolatus Hook.f.
Melicytus lanceolatus Hook.f.
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1 January 2000
9 July 2004