Class
Family
Genus
Classification
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Hoheria ovata Simpson & J.S.Thomson, Trans. & Proc. Roy. Soc. New Zealand 72: 24 (1942)
Synonymy:
- ≡ Hoheria sexstylosa var. ovata (G.Simpson & J.S.Thomson) Allan, Fl. New Zealand 1, 341 (1961)
Description
Much branched tree up to c. 6 m. tall; glab. or nearly so, except for ± dense stellate indumentum on young parts and infl. Lvs on petioles up to 10 mm. long; lamina of lvs of young plants 1–5 × 1–3 cm., sub-coriac., broad-ovate to suborbicular, obtuse to acute, serrate-dentate; lamina of lvs of adults 5–8 × 2–4 cm., coriac., ovate to broad-ovate, acute to acuminate, deeply serrate-dentate. Fls ± 2 cm. diam., solitary or in 3–5-fld cymose fascicles, on pedicels up to 4 cm. long. Carpels 5–8, broadly winged.
[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1. as Hoheria sexstylosa var. ovata]
Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
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.
Simpson, G.; Thomson, J.S. 1942: Notes on some New Zealand plants and descriptions of new species (No. 2). Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand 72: 21–40.
