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Pittosporum fairchildii Cheeseman

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Threat status: Naturally uncommon

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Pittosporum fairchildii Cheeseman, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 20: 147 (1887 [1888])
Pittosporum fairchildii Cheeseman

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Endemic
Wild
New Zealand
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Cheeseman
Cheeseman
1887
1888
147
Pittosporum fairchildi
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Pittosporum fairchildii Cheeseman
species
Pittosporum fairchildii

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fairchildii

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Pittosporum fairchildii Cheeseman

Rather compactly branched shrub up to 5 m. tall with slender spreading branchlets; bark brown. Branchlets, lvs and peduncles clad in white hairs when young, becoming glab. Lvs on petioles ± 5-6 mm. long, lamina coriac., 5-7·5 × 2-3·5 cm., obovate-cuneate to elliptic-oblong, obtuse to subacute, abruptly narrowed to apex, gradually narrowed to petiole; margins thickened. Fls terminal, solitary or in 2-4-fld umbels; pedicels slender, c. 1·5 cm. long, with scattered hairs. Sepals subulate to narrow-oblong, acute, pilose; petals oblong, obtuse, 1-1·5 cm. long, dark red. Capsules depressed-subglobose, c. 2-2.5 cm. diam., 3-4-valved, glab. when mature; valves hard, woody, furrowed or not.

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Pittosporum fairchildii Cheeseman
Pittosporum fairchildii Cheeseman
Pittosporum fairchildii Cheeseman
Pittosporum fairchildii Cheeseman
Pittosporum fairchildii Cheeseman
Pittosporum fairchildii Cheeseman
Pittosporum fairchildii Cheeseman
Pittosporum fairchildii Cheeseman
Pittosporum fairchildii Cheeseman
Pittosporum fairchildii Cheeseman
Pittosporum fairchildii Cheeseman
Pittosporum fairchildii Cheeseman
Pittosporum fairchildii Cheeseman
Pittosporum fairchildii Cheeseman
Pittosporum fairchildii Cheeseman
Pittosporum fairchildii Cheeseman
Pittosporum fairchildii Cheeseman

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Pittosporum fairchildii Cheeseman
New Zealand
Pittosporum fairchildii Cheeseman
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District

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c44aa01c-4e74-400b-80b0-2b9a851be811
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
21 June 2007
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