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Phyllocladus alpinus Hook.f.

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Threat status: Not threatened

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Phyllocladus alpinus Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 235 (1853)
Phyllocladus alpinus Hook.f.

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Endemic
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New Zealand
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Hook.f.
Hook.f.
1853
235
ICN
Phyllocladus alpinus Hook.f.
species
Phyllocladus alpinus
Tyep: New Zealand: South Island, Nelson, J. C. Bidwill 137; [locality unknown], lectotype K, here designated)

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alpinus

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Phyllocladus alpinus Hook.f.

Monoec. shrub or tree up to 9 m., trunk short, up to 4 dm. diam. Phylloclades alt. to subopp., rhachis short. Lvs of seedlings and juveniles up to 1·5 cm., narrow-linear, acute, deciduous, of older plants shorter. Phylloclades of juvenile plants up to 2 cm. long, deeply divided, thin, with narrow-linear segs, glaucous below; of adults thick, coriac., 1-2.5 cm., occ. up to 6 cm. long, 2 cm. wide. Phylloclade shape various; narrow-rhomboid or spathulate, sparingly or much lobed, often elliptic to obovate, cuneate at base, apex subacute to broad-obtuse, margins crenate, lf-denticles small. Male strobili 5-6 mm. long in fascicles of 2-5, rarely solitary, apical, with pedicels 1-2 mm. long; sporophylls with small variously shaped apiculi, sts erose. Carpidia densely clustered towards bases of phylloclades, or marginal, rarely solitary; receptacle of red, fleshy scales; mature heads c. 6-7 mm. diam. Seeds nutlike, black. exserted, ovoid, compressed, c. 2.5 mm. long, obtuse; cupule white, irregularly lobed, up to ⅔ length of seed.

Phyllocladus alpinus Hook.f.

2n = 18
n = 9
2n = 18
n = 9
2n = 18

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Phyllocladus alpinus Hook.f.
Phyllocladus alpinus Hook.f.
Phyllocladus alpinus Hook.f.
Phyllocladus alpinus Hook.f.
Phyllocladus alpinus Hook.f.
Phyllocladus alpinus Hook.f.
Phyllocladus alpinus Hook.f.
Phyllocladus alpinus Hook.f.
Phyllocladus alpinus Hook.f.
Phyllocladus alpinus Hook.f.
Phyllocladus alpinus Hook.f.
Phyllocladus alpinus Hook.f.
Phyllocladus alpinus Hook.f.
Phyllocladus alpinus Hook.f.
Phyllocladus alpinus Hook.f.
Phyllocladus trichomanoides var. alpinus (Hook.f.) Parl.
Phyllocladus alpinus Hook.f.

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Phyllocladus alpinus Hook.f.
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Phyllocladus alpinus Hook.f.
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Ruahine-Cook

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editorial
Although internationally this is currently regarded either as a variety of Phylloclaus trichomanoides (Farjon, 2017) or a synonym of P. trichomanoides (Plants of the World Online, GBIF), it is still regarded as a separate species in New Zealand. Interestingly, Hooker, when he published the name wrote: "..and fear it ma yprove only an apline variety of P. trichomanoides."
typification
Tyep: New Zealand: South Island, Nelson, J. C. Bidwill 137; [locality unknown], lectotype K, here designated)

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1 January 2000
24 April 2024
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