Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Malvales Juss. ex Bercht. & J.Presl
Family
Malvaceae
Genus
Hoheria A.Cunn.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Hoheria glabrata Sprague & Summerh., Kew Bull. 1926: 219 (1926)
Vernacular Name(s):
Deciduous lacebark; Hoihere; Houhere; Houhi; mountain lacebark; Whauwhi
 Description

Deciduous tree up to c. 10 m. tall, with branchlets terete, at first sparsely stellate-pubescent; bark pale to brownish. Juvenile plant with lvs on very slender petioles up to c. 2 cm. long; lamina thin, 1–3 × 1–3 cm., of ovate to suborbicular order, cordate, irregularly deeply lobed, teeth crenate-dentate, sts apiculate; passing gradually to mature form and occ. appearing on fully adult plants. Adults with lvs glab. or nearly so when mature on slender petioles (2)–5–7 cm. long; lamina subcoriac., 5–14 × (2)–10 cm., very broad-ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate (sts prolonged into "drip tips", sts broadly rounded at apex), deeply cordate to truncate at base, crenate-dentate; teeth obtuse to acute, sts apiculate. All forms may occur on the same plant. Fls up to ± 4 cm. diam., in cymose fascicles of 2–5 or solitary; pedicels 2–3 cm. long. Calyx cupular, 5–7 mm. long, densely stellate-pubescent without; lobes 5, triangular, acute, ± 3–4 mm. long. Petals white, us. 5, shortly clawed, obovate, notched or entire. Staminal column 5–7 mm. long; filaments ± 5 mm. long, anthers purple. Carpels 10–15, pubescent, ± 3 mm. long; style branches ± 6 mm. long, stellately pilose. Stigmas ± obliquely capitate to slightly decurrent. Fruiting carpels not winged, or with vestigial wing only.

[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1.]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Phenology

Flowering: Nov.–Jan.; Fruiting: Jan.–Mar.

 Bibliography
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R.; Barkla J.W.; Courtney, S.P.; Champion, P.D.; Perrie, L.R.; Beadel, S.N.; Ford, K.A.; Breitwieser, I.; Schönberger, I.; Hindmarsh-Walls, R.; Heenan, P.B.; Ladley, K. 2018: Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2017. New Zealand Threat Classification Series. No. 22. [Not Threatened]
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R.; Champion, P.D.; Courtney, S.P.; Heenan, P.B.; Barkla, J.W.; Cameron, E.K.; Norton, D.A.; Hitchmough, R.A. 2013: Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2012. New Zealand Threat Classification Series 3. Department of Conservation, Wellington. [Not Threatened]
Heenan, P.B.; Dawson, M.I.; Redmond, D.N.; Wagstaff, S.J. 2005: Relationships of the New Zealand mountain ribbonwoods (Hoheria glabrata and H. lyallii: Malvaceae), based on molecular and morphological data. New Zealand Journal of Botany 43(2): 527–549.
Sprague, T.A.; Summerhayes, V. S. 1926: The taxonomic position of Hoheria. Kew Bulletin 1926: 214–220.