Streblus banksii (Cheeseman) C.J.Webb

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Name scientific

Streblus banksii (Cheeseman) C.J.Webb in Connor & Edgar, New Zealand J. Bot. 25: 136 (1987)

Preferred name

Streblus banksii (Cheeseman) C.J.Webb

Linked name

Streblus banksii (Cheeseman) C.J.Webb

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Combination authors

C.J.Webb

Original authors

Cheeseman

Authors

(Cheeseman) C.J.Webb

Publication place

Connor, H.E.; Edgar, E. 1987: Name changes in the indigenous New Zealand flora, 1960–1986 and Nomina Nova IV, 1983–1986. New Zealand Journal of Botany 25: 115–170.

Year published

1987

Publication page

136

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Paratrophis banksii Cheeseman

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Streblus banksii

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Rosales

Family

Moraceae

Genus

Streblus

Species

banksii

Vernacular names

Language of use: English

Language of use: Māori

Synonyms

Descriptions

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

Paratrophis banksii Cheeseman

Description

Tree up to 12 m. tall; bark dark brown; branchlets ± pubescent when young, lenticels ∞. Lvs of juvenile plants 2-6 × 1-3 cm., about elliptic-oblong in outline; margins crenate, often deeply lobed, sinus obtuse. Lvs of adults 3·5-8·5 × 2-3·5 cm., on petioles up to 1 cm. long, us. less; lamina ovate to broad-ovate to ovate-elliptic, obtuse to subacute, margins crenate. Spikes axillary, rarely terminal, solitary or paired or rarely 3 together; staminate up to 3 cm. long, densely fld; pistillate up to 2.5 cm. long, fls distichously arranged. Drupe broad-ovoid, red, c. 6·5 mm. diam.

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