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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.

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Endemic
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New Zealand
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Hook.f.
Hook.f.
1852
18, t. 8
ICN
Melicytus lanceolatus Hook.f.
species
Melicytus lanceolatus

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lanceolatus

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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.

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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.
Melicytus lanceolatus Hook.f.
Melicytus lanceolatus Hook.f.
Melicytus lanceolatus Hook.f.
Melicytus lanceolatus Hook.f.

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Melicytus lanceolatus Hook.f.
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Melicytus lanceolatus Hook.f.
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Egmont-Wanganui
Melicytus lanceolatus Hook.f.
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North-western
Melicytus lanceolatus Hook.f.
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Ruahine-Cook
Melicytus lanceolatus Hook.f.
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Thames

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99560521-4a43-43d6-94ed-feafb59a2b21
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
9 July 2004
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