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Rhopalostylis sapida H.Wendl. & Drude

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Rhopalostylis sapida H.Wendl. & Drude (1878)
Rhopalostylis sapida H.Wendl. & Drude
Moore, L.B.; Edgar, E. 1970: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. II. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Monocotyledones except Gramineae. Botany Division DSIR, Wellington.
Names_Fungi record source Rhopalostylis sapida H.Wendl. & Drude

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H.Wendl. & Drude
H.Wendl. & Drude
1878
ICN
Rhopalostylis sapida H.Wendl. & Drude
species
Rhopalostylis sapida

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Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Arecales
Palmae
Rhopalostylis
sapida

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

Rhopalostylis sapida H.Wendl. & Drude

2n = 32
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

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.

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Rhopalostylis aff. sapida (AK 227148; Chatham Islands)
Rhopalostylis aff. sapida (AK 227148; Chatham Islands)
de Lange, P.J.; Heenan, P.B. et al. (1999)
Rhopalostylis sapida H.Wendl. & Drude
Rhopalostylis aff. sapida (AK 227148; Chatham Islands)
Rhopalostylis aff. sapida (AK 227148; Chatham Islands)
de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A. et al. (2004)
Rhopalostylis sapida H.Wendl. & Drude
Rhopalostylis sapida H.Wendl. & Drude
Dawson, M.I. (2008)
Rhopalostylis H.Wendl. & Drude
Rhopalostylis sapida H.Wendl. & Drude
Rhopalostylis sapida H.Wendl. & Drude
Dawson, M.I. (2008)
Rhopalostylis H.Wendl. & Drude
Rhopalostylis sapida H.Wendl. & Drude
Rhopalostylis sapida H.Wendl. & Drude
de Lange, P.J.; Heenan, P.B. et al. (1999)
Rhopalostylis sapida H.Wendl. & Drude
Rhopalostylis sapida H.Wendl. & Drude
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R. et al. (2013)
Rhopalostylis sapida H.Wendl. & Drude
Rhopalostylis sapida H.Wendl. & Drude
Rhopalostylis sapida H.Wendl. & Drude
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R. et al. (2018)
Rhopalostylis sapida H.Wendl. & Drude
Rhopalostylis sapida H.Wendl. & Drude
Rhopalostylis sapida H.Wendl. & Drude
Moore, L.B.; Edgar, E. (1970)

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Rhopalostylis sapida H.Wendl. & Drude
New Zealand
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Rhopalostylis sapida H.Wendl. & Drude
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
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Rhopalostylis sapida H.Wendl. & Drude
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
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Rhopalostylis sapida H.Wendl. & Drude
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
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Rhopalostylis sapida H.Wendl. & Drude
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
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Rhopalostylis sapida H.Wendl. & Drude
New Zealand
Taranaki Land District
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Rhopalostylis sapida H.Wendl. & Drude
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
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Rhopalostylis sapida H.Wendl. & Drude
New Zealand
Westland Land District
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1 January 2000
12 June 2025
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