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Pittosporum roimata Gemmill & S.N.Carter

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Pittosporum roimata Gemmill & S.N.Carter in Carter et al., Syst. Bot. 43: 636-641 (2018)
Pittosporum cornifolium A.Cunn.
James, C.J.; de Lange, P.J. 2024: A taxonomic re-evaluation of Pittosporum roimata Gemmill & S.N. Carter (Pittosporaceae, Apiales). Ukrainian Botanical Journal 81(5): 307–321.

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Gemmill & S.N.Carter
Gemmill & S.N.Carter
Carter, S.N.; Miller, S.; Meyer, S.J.; Gemmill, C.E.C. 2018: A new species of Pittosporum described from the Poor Knights Islands, Northland, Aotearoa/New Zealand. Systematic Botany 43(2): 633–643.
2018
636-641
ICN
Pittosporum roimata Gemmill & S.N.Carter
species
Pittosporum roimata
The Maori specific epithet ‘roimata’ was chosen through consultation with Te Whakapiko te hapu o Ngati Manaia te iwi, Whananaki, Aotearoa. We quote the kaumatua Marie Tautari and David Peters here: “According to oral tradition after the massacre took place on the Poor Knights two canoe loads of the dead were taken to the mainland at Whananaki and buried at a place called Roimata.
TYPE: NEW ZEALAND, North Island, Poor Knights Islands, Tawhiti Rahi. Beneath pohutakawa forest on summit plateau. Terrestrial, flowers yellow. 9 Sept. 1980 A. E. Wright 3951 (holotype: AK 155344).

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Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Apiales
Pittosporaceae
Pittosporum
roimata

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Pittosporum roimata Gemmill & S.N.Carter
Pittosporum roimata Gemmill & S.N.Carter
Carter, S.N.; Miller, S.; Meyer, S.J.; Gemmill, C.E.C. (2018)
Pittosporum roimata Gemmill & S.N.Carter
Pittosporum roimata Gemmill & S.N.Carter
Pittosporum roimata Gemmill & S.N.Carter
James, C.J.; de Lange, P.J. (2024)
Pittosporum cornifolium A.Cunn.

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Pittosporum roimata Gemmill & S.N.Carter
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
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Pittosporum roimata Gemmill & S.N.Carter
New Zealand
Taranaki Land District
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Etymology
The Maori specific epithet ‘roimata’ was chosen through consultation with Te Whakapiko te hapu o Ngati Manaia te iwi, Whananaki, Aotearoa. We quote the kaumatua Marie Tautari and David Peters here: “According to oral tradition after the massacre took place on the Poor Knights two canoe loads of the dead were taken to the mainland at Whananaki and buried at a place called Roimata.
Carter, S.N.; Miller, S.; Meyer, S.J.; Gemmill, C.E.C. 2018: A new species of Pittosporum described from the Poor Knights Islands, Northland, Aotearoa/New Zealand. Systematic Botany 43(2): 633–643.
typification
TYPE: NEW ZEALAND, North Island, Poor Knights Islands, Tawhiti Rahi. Beneath pohutakawa forest on summit plateau. Terrestrial, flowers yellow. 9 Sept. 1980 A. E. Wright 3951 (holotype: AK 155344).
Carter, S.N.; Miller, S.; Meyer, S.J.; Gemmill, C.E.C. 2018: A new species of Pittosporum described from the Poor Knights Islands, Northland, Aotearoa/New Zealand. Systematic Botany 43(2): 633–643.

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2 July 2018
21 January 2025
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