Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Crossosomatales Takht. ex Reveal
Family
Strasburgeriaceae
 Subordinate Taxa
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Ixerba A.Cunn., Ann. Nat. Hist. 3: 249 (1839)
 Description

Fls in terminal subumbellate panicles; calyx-tube or receptacle short, adnate to base of ovary, lobes 5, imbricate, deciduous; petals 5, inserted below 5-lobed disk, imbricate; stamens 5, alt. with disk lobes, filaments slender. Ovary superior, conical, 5-lobed, 5-celled; style twisted, 5-grooved; ovules 2 per cell, collateral. Capsule coriac., broadly ovoid, 5-celled, loculicidally dehiscent; seeds large. Genus monotypic, endemic. Tree with alt. to opp. or whorled, exstipulate, glab. lvs; teeth gland-tipped.

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

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
Number of species in New Zealand within Ixerba A.Cunn.
CategoryNumber
Indigenous (Endemic)1
Total1
 Bibliography
Cunningham, A. 1839: Florae insularum Novae Zelandiae precursor; or a specimen of the botany of the islands of New Zealand. Annals of Natural History 3: 244–250.
Garnock-Jones, P.J. 2014: Evidence-based review of the taxonomic status of New Zealand’s endemic seed plant genera. New Zealand Journal of Botany 52(2): 163–212.
Mabberley, D.J. 2008: Mabberley's plant book, a portable dictionary of plants, their classification and uses. Edition 3. Cambridge University Press.
Nepia, R.E.; Clarkson, B.D. 2017: Biological flora of New Zealand (15): Ixerba brexioides, tāwari. New Zealand Journal of Botany 33: xx–xx.