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Metrosideros colensoi Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 68 (1852)
Metrosideros colensoi Hook.f.
Allan, H.H. 1961: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. I. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledones. Government Printer, Wellington.
Names_Fungi record source Metrosideros colensoi Hook. f. 1853

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Endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region

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Hook.f.
Hook.f.
Hooker, J.D. 1852–1853 ("1853"): The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H.M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror in the Years 1839–1843, under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross. II. Flora Novae-Zelandiae. Part I. Flowering plants. Lovell Reeve, London.
1852
68
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Metrosideros colensoi Hook.f.
species
Metrosideros colensoi

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Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Myrtales
Myrtaceae
Metrosideros
colensoi

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

Metrosideros colensoi Hook.f.

Slender liane, up to 6 m. or more tall; branchlets subterete, setose to pubescent. Lvs subsessile; lamina (8)-15-20 × (5)-7-10-(20) mm., submembr., about ovate-lanceolate, acute to acuminate, ± densely pubescent when young. Infl. of terminal and lateral small few-fld cymes; pedicels us. setose, ± 3 mm. long; receptacle c. 5 mm. long, ± funnelform, pubescent, far exceeding ovary. Sepals narrow-triangular, acute; petals pink to white, orbicular, hardly > sepals; filaments ± 10 cm. long. Ovary adnate to receptacle; capsule subglobose, 3-ribbed, up to c. 4 mm. diam., often less, exceeded by receptacle, loculicidally 3-valved.
Allan, H.H. 1961: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. I. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledones. Government Printer, Wellington.

Metrosideros colensoi var. pendens (Colenso) Kirk

Tall liane, parts densely pilose-pubescent when young, hairs brownish; branchlets very slender, drooping, up to c. 5 dm. long; lvs ± 15-20 × 5-10 mm., indumentum becoming sparser in age; fls white or faintly pink-tinged; sepals acuminate, recurved, > petals; receptacle much exceeding adnate ovary.
Dawson, M.I. 2008: Index of chromosome numbers of indigenous New Zealand vascular plants.

Metrosideros colensoi Hook.f.

2n = 22

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Metrosideros colensoi Hook.f.
Metrosideros colensoi Hook.f.
Allan, H.H. (1961)
Metrosideros colensoi Hook.f.
Metrosideros colensoi Hook.f.
Dawson, M.I. (2008)
Metrosideros Banks ex Gaertn.
Metrosideros colensoi Hook.f.
Metrosideros colensoi Hook.f.
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R. et al. (2013)
Metrosideros colensoi Hook.f.
Metrosideros colensoi Hook.f.
Metrosideros colensoi Hook.f.
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R. et al. (2018)
Metrosideros colensoi Hook.f.
Metrosideros colensoi var. pendens (Colenso) Kirk
Metrosideros colensoi var. pendens (Colenso) Kirk
Allan, H.H. (1961)

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Metrosideros colensoi Hook.f.
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Metrosideros colensoi Hook.f.
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Ruahine-Cook
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1 January 2000
29 March 2004
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