Cordyline obtecta (Graham) Baker
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Cordyline obtecta (Graham) Baker (1875)
Cordyline obtecta (Graham) Baker
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Cordyline obtecta (Graham) Baker
n = 19
2n = 38
Small widely-branched tree to c. 4 m high; trunk single or several. Leaves c. 60-65 × 5.5-7 cm, narrowed above base to short petiole; midrib obscure, nerves fine. Panicle lax, to 80 cm long. Flowers white or yellowish; segments 5-6 mm long. Berry white.
Small widely branched tree to c. 4 m. tall; trunk single or several. Lvs c. 60–65 × 5.5–7 cm., mostly rather stiff though drooping in age, narrowed above base into short, hardly channelled petiole of c. ½ lamina-width or less; lamina similar on both surfaces, widest above middle; midrib obscure adaxially, more prominent abaxially, widened towards base; nerves fine, subequal, ± parallel but meeting midrib at appreciable angle. Peduncle to 1 cm. or more diam. Panicle to 80 cm. long, broad, branched to second or third order, branches well spaced; lower bracts green and foliaceous, sts lobed (perhaps only accidentally?); ultimate racemes c. 10–20 cm. long, c. 2 cm. diam. with fls on; axes visible between fls. Fls white or yellowish; per. c. 5–6 mm. long, tube c. 2 mm. long; tepals patent. Stamens c. = tepals; filaments rather long-connate, the free portion as broad as the anther and not much longer. Stigma shortly trifid. Fr. c. 4 mm. diam., globose, white. Seeds c. 3.5 mm. diam., glossy, deeply notched on one side. 2n = 38.
Taxonomic concepts
Cordyline baueri Hook.f.
Cordyline obtecta (Graham) Baker
Cordyline kaspar W.R.B.Oliv.
Cordyline obtecta (Graham) Baker
Cordyline kaspar W.R.B.Oliv.
Cordyline obtecta (Graham) Baker
Cordyline obtecta (Graham) Baker
Cordyline obtecta (Graham) Baker
Cordyline obtecta (Graham) Baker
Cordyline obtecta (Graham) Baker
Cordyline obtecta (Graham) Baker
Cordyline obtecta (Graham) Baker
Cordyline obtecta (Graham) Baker
Cordyline obtecta (Graham) Baker
Cordyline obtecta (Graham) Baker
Cordyline obtecta (Graham) Baker
Cordyline obtecta (Graham) Baker
Cordyline obtecta (Graham) Baker
Cordyline obtecta (Graham) Baker
Cordyline obtecta (Graham) Baker
Dracaena obtecta Graham
Cordyline obtecta (Graham) Baker
Historic biostatus
Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
NZ Botanical Region
Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region
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13 March 2002
18 May 2006