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Quintinia elliptica Hook.f.

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Quintinia elliptica Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 78 (1852)
Quintinia elliptica Hook.f.
Allan, H.H. 1961: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. I. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledones. Government Printer, Wellington.

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New Zealand
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Hook.f.
Hook.f.
Hooker, J.D. 1852–1853 ("1853"): The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H.M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror in the Years 1839–1843, under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross. II. Flora Novae-Zelandiae. Part I. Flowering plants. Lovell Reeve, London.
1852
78
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Quintinia elliptica Hook.f.
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Quintinia elliptica

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Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Paracryphiales
Paracryphiaceae
Quintinia
elliptica

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Allan, H.H. 1961: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. I. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledones. Government Printer, Wellington.

Quintinia elliptica Hook.f.

"Very similar to but smaller" (Hook. f. Handbk N.Z. Fl. 1864, 59). Lvs 2-7 × 1-3 cm., on petioles up to 2 cm. long; lamina elliptic to broad-elliptic, obtuse to subacute, not blotched, distantly rather obscurely serrate to entire. Racemes 3·5-6 cm. long; pedicels 2-3 mm. long; petals 1·5-2 mm. long, ovate-oblong. Capsules 4-5 mm. long, including style.

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Quintinia elliptica Hook.f.
Quintinia elliptica Hook.f.
Allan, H.H. (1961)
Quintinia serrata var. elliptica (Hook.f.) Kirk
Quintinia serrata var. elliptica (Hook.f.) Kirk
Allan, H.H. (1961)
Quintinia elliptica Hook.f.

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editorial
Eagle 1982 volume 2, p. 367 says “Quintinia acutifolia and Q. elliptical are probably not specifically distinct from Q. serrata (the earliest name)”. This is probably the opinion of Tony Druce. Qunintinia is very variable and some botanists prefer to regard Quintinia acutifolia and Q. elliptical as synonyms of Q. serrata because leaf shape (the main distinguishing character), seems to form a cline.

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1 January 2000
4 August 2011
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