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Melicytus macrophyllus A.Cunn.

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Melicytus macrophyllus A.Cunn., Ann. Nat. Hist. 4: 256 (1840)
Melicytus macrophyllus A.Cunn.

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Endemic
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New Zealand
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A.Cunn.
A.Cunn.
1840
256
ICN
Melicytus macrophyllus A.Cunn.
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Melicytus macrophyllus

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macrophyllus

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Melicytus macrophyllus A.Cunn.

A tree up to 6 m. tall; trunk up to 4 dm. diam.; bark light brown. Lvs on light-coloured petioles 1-2 cm. long; lamina (5)-7 -15-20) × (3)-4-6-(10) cm., coriac., coarsely and bluntly serrate, obovate-oblong, abruptly acute (some lvs rounded at apex) sinuately and cuneately narrowed to base. Infl. of 3-12 fascicled fls on slender, decurved pedicels c. 1·5 cm. long; bracts just below fls. Fls 6-7 mm. diam.; calyx lobes ovate-oblong, obtuse, 1-2 mm. long; petals narrow-oblong to ligulate, becoming recurved (♀ shorter, remaining suberect). ♂ with sessile, free, apiculate anthers; ♀ with short style and discoid 3-5-lobed stigmas. Berry subglobose to turbinate, 5-7 × 4-6 mm., white, ± purple flushed; seeds 4-6.

Melicytus macrophyllus A.Cunn.

2n = 32
n = 16
2n = 32

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Melicytus macrophyllus A.Cunn.
Melicytus macrophyllus A.Cunn.
Melicytus macrophyllus A.Cunn.
Melicytus macrophyllus A.Cunn.
Melicytus macrophyllus A.Cunn.
Melicytus macrophyllus A.Cunn.
Melicytus macrophyllus A.Cunn.
Melicytus macrophyllus A.Cunn.
Melicytus macrophyllus A.Cunn.
Melicytus macrophyllus A.Cunn.
Melicytus macrophyllus A.Cunn.
Melicytus macrophyllus A.Cunn.
Melicytus macrophyllus A.Cunn.
Melicytus macrophyllus A.Cunn.

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Melicytus macrophyllus A.Cunn.
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f9231287-3af9-4693-8ac3-6f506131e54e
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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
9 July 2004
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