Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Ericales Bercht. & J.Presl
Family
Sapotaceae
Genus
Planchonella Pierre
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Planchonella costata (Endl.) Pierre, Not. Bot. Sapot. (1890)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Achras costata Endl., Prodr. Fl. Norfolk. 49 (1833)
  • ≡ Sapota costata (Endl.) A.DC. (1844)
  • ≡ Sideroxylon costatum (Endl.) F.Muell., Syst. Census Austral. Pl. 92 (1884)
  • ≡ Sersalisia costata (Endl.) Domin (1930)
  • ≡ Pouteria costata (Endl.) Baehni, Candollea 9: 304 (1942)
  • = Achras costata A.Cunn., Ann. Nat. Hist. 2: 46 (1839) nom. inval.
  • = Mimusops laurina A.Cunn., London Journal of Botany 113 (1842) nom. inval.
  • = Achras novozelandica F.Muell. (1875) – as Achras novo-zelandica
  • ≡ Sideroxylon novo-zelandicum (F.Muell.) Hemsl., Kew Bull. 459 (1908)
  • ≡ Planchonella novo-zelandica (F.Muell.) Allan, Fl. New Zealand 1, 539 (1961)
  • = Planchonella costata var. austro-montana H.J.Lam (1942) nom. inval.
  • ≡ Pouteria costata var. austro-montana (H.J.Lam) Baehni, Candollea 9 (1942 [309])
 Description

Tree up to c. 15 m. tall; trunk up to 1 m. diam.; closely branched, branchlets clad in appressed hairs and ± lactescent. Lvs on pubescent, lactescent petioles up to ± 10 mm. long. Lamina (4)–5–10–(15) × 2–5 cm., entire, coriac., lustrous, glab. except on midrib below, elliptic-to obovate-oblong, obtuse or occ. lvs retuse, cuneately narrowed to base. Lateral veins ∞, at rather wide angle to midrib. Fls axillary (cauliflory occ.), solitary or rarely 2 together, ± (3)–4–(6) mm. diam., on stout curved peduncles up to 12 mm. long. Calyx 4–(5)-toothed, teeth about ovate, pubescent, obtuse; hairs centrally affixed. Corolla but little > calyx, deeply 4–5-partite; lobes obovate-oblong, ± 4 mm. long. Stamens 5, filaments thick; staminodes 5, subulate. Ovary 4–5-loculed; fr. c. 2.5 cm. long, ovoid to ellipsoid. Seeds (1)–2–3–(4), hard, curved, almost as long as fr.

[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1 as Planchonella novo-zelandica (F.Muell.) Allan]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Non-endemic)
 Bibliography
Baehni, C. 1942: Mémoires sur les Sapotacées. II. Le Genre Pouteria. Candollea 9: 147–476.
Cunningham, A. 1839: Florae insularum Novae Zelandiae precursor; or a specimen of the botany of the islands of New Zealand. Annals of Natural History 2: 44–52.
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. [Relic]
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Endlicher, S.F.L. 1833: Prodromus Florae Norfolkicae. Beck, Wien.
Green, P.S. 1990: Notes relating to the floras of Norfolk and Lord Howe Islands, III. Kew Bulletin 45: 235–255.
Green, P.S. 1994: Oceanic Islands, 1. Flora of Australia. Vol. 49. Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra. ABRS/CSIRO, Canberra and Melbourne. [as Pouteria costata (Endl.) Baehni; Pouteria costata var. austro-montana (H.J.Lam) Baehni]
Hemsley, W. B. 1908: Kew Bulletin
London Journal of Botany
Mueller, F.J.H. von 1884: Systematic Census of Australian Plants.
Pierre, J.B.L. 1890–1891: Notes Botaniques - Sapotacées 1. Paul Klincksieck, Paris.
Swenson, U.; Munzinger, J.; Bartish, I.V. 2007: Molecular phylogeny of Planchonella (Sapotaceae) and eight new species from New Caledonia. Taxon 56(2): 329–354.
Webb, C.J.; Edgar, E. 1999: Spelling New Zealand in the specific and infraspecific epithets of vascular plants. New Zealand Journal of Botany 37(1): 71–77. [as Achras novozelandica F.Muell.]