Class
Family
Fls perfect, in terminal panicled cymes; calyx funnelform, limb very shortly plicately 5-lobed; stamens mostly 7–8, unequal; filaments expanded and united below. Ovary 1-celled, 1-ovuled; stigmas pulvinate, lateral. Fr. enclosed in elongated, 5-ribbed per.; seed oblong, grooved. Shrubs or trees with opp. to subwhorled lvs. Genus perhaps monotypic: Hawaiian, Kermadec, Norfolk and Lord Howe Is, Australia, N.Z.
[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1 as Heimerliodendron Skottsb.]
Category | Number |
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Indigenous (Non-endemic) | 1 |
Total | 1 |