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Pittosporum colensoi Hook.f.

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Pittosporum colensoi Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 22 (1852)
Pittosporum colensoi Hook.f.
Allan, H.H. 1961: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. I. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledones. Government Printer, Wellington.
Names_Fungi record source Pittosporum colensoi Hook.f.

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New Zealand
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Hook.f.
Hook.f.
Hooker, J.D. 1852–1853 ("1853"): The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H.M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror in the Years 1839–1843, under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross. II. Flora Novae-Zelandiae. Part I. Flowering plants. Lovell Reeve, London.
1852
22
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Pittosporum colensoi Hook.f.
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Pittosporum colensoi

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Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Apiales
Pittosporaceae
Pittosporum
colensoi

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is host of
Dactylanthus taylorii Hook.f.
CHR (1 records from [Not available].) Link to an external page

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Allan, H.H. 1961: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. I. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledones. Government Printer, Wellington.

Pittosporum buchananii Hook.f.

Shrub or tree up to 6 m. tall; branchlets slender; young branchlets and lvs ± pubescent. Lvs alt., submembr., elliptic-oblong to elliptic or broad-elliptic; acute to acuminate or obtuse on same plant; lamina 6-13 × 3-5 cm., sts slightly undulate, on petiole 1-2 cm. long. Fls axillary, solitary or paired, on pedicels 6-20 mm. long. Sepals 4-5 mm. long, ovate-oblong, obtuse. Petals c. 1 cm. long, dark red, narrow with long claw. Capsules up to 1 cm. long, subglobose, on pedicels 1-2 cm. long.
Allan, H.H. 1961: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. I. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledones. Government Printer, Wellington.

Pittosporum colensoi Hook.f.

Tree up to ± 10 m. tall, trunk up to ± 4 dm. diam., bark very dark, branches stouter than in P. tenuifolium. Lvs alt. on short stout petioles. Lamina elliptic- to lanceolate- to obovate-oblong, us. acute, ± 4-10 × 2-5 cm., coriac., dark green above, paler below; margins flat. Fls axillary, solitary or occ. in few-fld cymes, on short stout ± pubescent peduncles. Bracts somewhat persistent. Sepals broad-oblong, ± pubescent; petals dark to very dark red. Capsules ± globose, c. 12 mm. diam.; valves woody, thick, rugulose.
Dawson, M.I. 2008: Index of chromosome numbers of indigenous New Zealand vascular plants.

Pittosporum colensoi Hook.f.

2n = 24
2n = 24

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Pittosporum buchananii Hook.f.
Pittosporum buchananii Hook.f.
Allan, H.H. (1961)
Pittosporum colensoi Hook.f.
Pittosporum colensoi Hook.f.
Allan, H.H. (1961)
Pittosporum colensoi Hook.f.
Pittosporum colensoi Hook.f.
Pittosporum colensoi Hook.f.
Dawson, M.I. (2008)
Pittosporum Banks & Sol. ex Gaertn.
Pittosporum colensoi Hook.f.
Pittosporum colensoi Hook.f.
Dawson, M.I. (2008)
Pittosporum Banks & Sol. ex Gaertn.
Pittosporum colensoi Hook.f.
Pittosporum colensoi Hook.f.
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R. et al. (2013)
Pittosporum colensoi Hook.f.
Pittosporum colensoi Hook.f.
Pittosporum colensoi Hook.f.
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R. et al. (2018)
Pittosporum colensoi Hook.f.
Pittosporum huttonianum var. viridifolium Kirk
Pittosporum huttonianum var. viridifolium Kirk
Allan, H.H. (1961)
Pittosporum colensoi Hook.f.

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Pittosporum colensoi Hook.f.
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Pittosporum tenuifolium subsp. colensoi (Hook.f.) Kirk
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11 Link to an external page

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1 January 2000
19 June 2012
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