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Pittosporum ellipticum Kirk

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Pittosporum ellipticum Kirk, Trans. New Zealand Inst. 4: 267 (1872)
Pittosporum ellipticum Kirk

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Endemic
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New Zealand
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Kirk
Kirk
1872
267
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Pittosporum ellipticum Kirk
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Pittosporum ellipticum

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ellipticum

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Pittosporum ellipticum Kirk

Tree up to 8 m. tall, bark black, branches spreading; young branchlets, lvs, and peduncles densely clad in ferruginous tomentum. Lvs alt., on stout petioles up to 10 mm. long. Lamina coriac., ± 5-10 × 2.5-5 cm., elliptic to lanceolate-elliptic to elliptic-oblong, acute to obtuse. Umbels terminal, 2-5-fld. Sepals ovate to narrow-ovate, acuminate, c. 6 mm. long, pilose; petals linear-oblong, acute to acuminate, c. 1 cm. long, red (occ. yellow). Capsules broadly ovoid, subcompressed, c. 17 mm. diam., tomentose, 2-valved; valves woody, very faintly furrowed.

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Pittosporum ellipticum Kirk
Pittosporum ellipticum Kirk
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Pittosporum ellipticum Kirk subsp. ellipticum
Pittosporum ellipticum Kirk
Pittosporum ellipticum subsp. ovatum Kirk
Pittosporum ellipticum Kirk
Pittosporum ellipticum var. decorum Cheeseman
Pittosporum ellipticum Kirk

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Pittosporum ellipticum Kirk
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1 January 2000
21 June 2007
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