Class
Order
Family
Classification
Subordinate Taxa
- Pittosporum anomalum
- Pittosporum colensoi
- Pittosporum cornifolium
- Pittosporum crassicaule
- Pittosporum crassifolium
- Pittosporum dallii
- Pittosporum divaricatum
- Pittosporum ellipticum
- Pittosporum eugenioides
- Pittosporum fairchildii
- Pittosporum huttonianum
- Pittosporum intermedium
- Pittosporum kirkii
- Pittosporum lineare
- Pittosporum obcordatum
- Pittosporum patulum
- Pittosporum pimeleoides
- Pittosporum ralphii
- Pittosporum rangitahua
- Pittosporum rigidum
- Pittosporum roimata
- Pittosporum serpentinum
- Pittosporum tenuifolium
- Pittosporum turneri
- Pittosporum umbellatum
- Pittosporum undulatum
- Pittosporum virgatum
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Pittosporum Banks & Sol. ex Gaertn. in Gaertner, Fruct. Sem. Pl. 286, t. 59 (1788), nom. cons.
Type Taxon:
Vernacular Name(s):
Kohukohu; Mock orange; Pittosporum; Victorian box
Description
Fls perfect to unisexual by abortion, panicled to umbellately arranged or in fascicles, or solitary. Ovary 2–5-celled, style short; ovules few to ∞, sts aborted. Fr. a globose to ovoid or obovoid capsule with solitary to ∞ seeds; valves 2–5, us. woody or leathery, crowned by hardened remains of style; seeds often immersed in viscid fluid. Trees and shrubs with alt. to subverticillate lvs.
[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1.]
Biostatus
Indigenous (Non-endemic)
| Category | Number |
|---|---|
| Indigenous (Endemic) | 25 |
| Indigenous (Non-endemic) | 1 |
| Exotic: Fully Naturalised | 1 |
| Total | 27 |
Bibliography
Cooper, R.C. 1956: The Australian and New Zealand species of Pittosporum. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 43: 87–188.
Gaertner, J. 1788: De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum. Vol. 1. Stuttgart.
Mabberley, D.J. 2008: Mabberley's plant book, a portable dictionary of plants, their classification and uses. Edition 3. Cambridge University Press.
