Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Caryophyllales Juss. ex Bercht. & J.Presl
Family
Nyctaginaceae
Genus
Pisonia L.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Pisonia brunoniana Endl., Prodr. Fl. Norfolk. 43 (1833)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Heimerliodendron brunonianum (Endl.) Skottsb., Svensk Botanisk Tidskrift 35: 44 (1942)
Vernacular Name(s):
Bird catcher tree; Birdlime tree; Parapara; Pūhāureroa; Pūwhāureroa
 Description

Shrub or tree up to 6 m. tall or more; trunk up to 6 dm. diam.; branches brittle. Lvs opp. to subwhorled, 10–40 × 5–15 cm., on petioles up to 3 cm. long; lamina glab., submembr., entire, oblong to obovate-oblong, obtuse. Panicles many-fld, bracts foliaceous, pedicels ± pubescent. Per. up to 10 mm. long, greenish, pubescent to glabrate; stamens 6–8, anthers not or very slightly exserted. Fruiting per. elongate, narrow, constricted below mouth; ribs 5, papillose, very viscid, enclosing fr.

[From:  Allan  (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1 as Heimerliodendron brunonianum (Endl.) Skottsb.]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Non-endemic)
 Bibliography
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