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Tony Druce“invented” this name, but did not publish it. He put this name on herbarium sheets and it appeared as tag name on checklists (e.g. Druce, A.P.Indigenous vascular plants of New Zealand. Unpublished checklist held at Landcare Research, Lincoln; 19--; (unpub)) The first published appearance of Coprosma taylorae was in Eagle, A.E. 1982: Eagle's trees and shrubs of New Zealand.Second series ed. Wellington, Collins, as Coprosma sp. t: “taylorae” Webb, C.J.; Simpson, M.J.A. 2001: Seeds of New Zealand gymnosperms and dicotyledons. Christchurch, Manuka Press, also uses the name tayloriae before it was properly published by G.T.Jane 2005.