Rhopalostylis sapida H.Wendl. & Drude

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Name scientific

Rhopalostylis sapida H.Wendl. & Drude (1878)

Preferred name

Rhopalostylis sapida H.Wendl. & Drude

Taxonomy reference

Moore, L.B.; Edgar, E. 1970: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. II. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Monocotyledones except Gramineae. Botany Division DSIR, Wellington.

Linked name

Rhopalostylis sapida H.Wendl. & Drude

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Original authors

H.Wendl. & Drude

Authors

H.Wendl. & Drude

Year published

1878

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Rhopalostylis sapida H.Wendl. & Drude

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Rhopalostylis sapida

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Arecales

Family

Palmae

Genus

Rhopalostylis

Species

sapida

Vernacular names

Language of use: English

Language of use: Māori

Nīkau

Synonyms

Rhopalostylis aff. sapida (AK 227148; Chatham Islands)

Associations

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is host of

Cololejeunea pulchella (Mitt.) R.M.Schust.

CHR (3 records from [Not available].)

is host of

Dichelodontium nitidum (Hook.f. & Wilson) Broth.

CHR (1 records from [Not available].)

is host of

Loxogramme dictyopteris (Mett.) Copel.

CHR (3 records from [Not available].)

is host of

Pittosporum cornifolium A.Cunn.

CHR (1 records from [Not available].)

Descriptions

Dawson, M.I. 2008: Index of chromosome numbers of indigenous New Zealand vascular plants.

Rhopalostylis sapida H.Wendl. & Drude

Description

2n = 32

Description

2n = 32

Moore, L.B.; Edgar, E. 1970: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. II. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Monocotyledones except Gramineae. Botany Division DSIR, Wellington.

Rhopalostylis sapida H.Wendl. & Drude

Description

Trunk to c. 10 m. × 25 cm., green between rather closely spaced lf-scars; crownshaft to 60 cm. long, smooth and green, slightly bulging. Lf to 3 m. long; lflts to 1 m. long, closely set and ascending sharply. Spathes c. 30 × 15 cm., between pink and yellow, smooth, falling as first fls open. Ultimate branches of infl. to c. 20–(30) cm. long, c. 1.5 cm. diam. with buds on, at first pale cream-coloured; fl.-buds tightly packed, lilac. Fr. c. 10 × 7 mm., elliptic-oblong, brick-red. Seed long-oval, tightly invested in smooth, whitish endocarp which is marked by mainly longitudinal vascular strands; hilum broad at chalazal end, tapering to a narrow groove beside the micropyle.