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Coriaria arborea Linds.

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Coriaria arborea Linds., Contr. N. Zeal. Bot. 84 (1868)
Coriaria arborea Linds.

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Endemic
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New Zealand
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Linds.
Linds.
1868
84
ICN
Coriaria arborea Linds.
species
Coriaria arborea

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arborea

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Coriaria arborea Linds.

Stout shrub, much-branched from base, up to ± 6 m. tall; trunk short, inclined, up to c. 3 dm. diam. Rarely a tree with erect cylindric trunk up to 3 m. long. Branches ± fluted; bark dark brown to grey. Branchlets with distinct lenticels and lf-scars, ± quadrangular, at first green. Lvs opp. or with occ. whorls of 3, on stout petioles 1-3 mm. long. Lamina (30)-50-80-(100) × (25)-40-50-(60) mm.; broad-ovate to broadly ovate-oblong, rather abruptly acuminate or acute, subcordate to rounded at base; subcoriac., dark shining green above, paler below, glab.; 2-4 lateral veins conspicuous, arching to apex; margins flat or slightly undulate. Racemes (10)-15-20-(30) cm. long, slender, drooping, pubescent. Fls ∞, rather distant to rather close-set, on patent very slender pedicels up to c. 5 mm. long. Sepals broad-ovate to ovate-oblong, 3-4 mm. long, ± crenulate; petals ovate-oblong, c. 1·5 mm. long. Ripe carpels 5, surrounded by enlarged, succulent, dark purple petals c. 4 mm. long.

Coriaria arborea Linds.

2n = 40
2n = 40
n = c. 22 bivalents
n = 20

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Coriaria arborea Linds.
Coriaria arborea Linds.
Coriaria arborea Linds.
Coriaria arborea Linds.
Coriaria arborea Linds.
Coriaria arborea Linds.
Coriaria arborea Linds.
Coriaria arborea Linds.
Coriaria arborea Linds.
Coriaria arborea Linds.
Coriaria arborea Linds.
Coriaria arborea Linds.
Coriaria arborea Linds.

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Coriaria arborea Linds.
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fd519b23-a2de-4122-9952-5128bae25ea2
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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
29 April 2008
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