Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Apiales Nakai
Family
Pittosporaceae R.Br.
Genus
Pittosporum Banks & Sol. ex Gaertn.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Pittosporum patulum Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 19 (1864)
 Description

Erect shrub or small tree up to 5 m. tall, with ascending to spreading branches; branchlets marked by scars of fallen lvs; young shoots and peduncles with sparse pale fulvous hairs. Lvs coriac., of juvenile plants up to 5 cm. × 5 mm., linear, coarsely bluntly toothed, sts pinnatifid; of semi-adults similar, but up to 1 cm. wide; of adults 4–5 × 1–1·5 cm., oblanceolate to narrow-obovate, entire or with a few teeth, gradually narrowed to very short stout petiole, crowded towards tips of branchlets. Umbels 4–8-fld, terminal; pedicels slender, up to 1·5 cm. long. Fls fragrant, sepals narrow-ovate, acute; petals twice length of sepals, dark red, obtuse. Capsules subglobose, subcompressed, 2-valved; valves woody, c. 1 cm diam.

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

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Bibliography
de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A.; Courtney, S.P.; Heenan, P.B.; Barkla, J.W.; Cameron, E.K.; Hitchmough, R.; Townsend, A.J. 2009: Threatened and uncommon plants of New Zealand (2008 revision). New Zealand Journal of Botany 47: 61–96. [Nationally Critical]
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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. [Nationally Vulnerable]
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