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Coprosma petriei Cheeseman

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Coprosma petriei Cheeseman, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 18: 316 (1885 [1886])
Coprosma petriei Cheeseman

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New Zealand
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Cheeseman
Cheeseman
1885
1886
316
Coprosma Petriei
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Coprosma petriei Cheeseman
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Coprosma petriei

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petriei

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Coprosma petriei Cheeseman

Subshrub forming dense low mats or cushions up to ± 2 m. diam., us. smaller; branches creeping and rooting, bark dark brown; branchlets slender, pubescent. Lvs densely crowded, sessile or subsessile, us. fascicled on short branchlets. Stipules rather broadly triangular, subacute, sheathing, pubescent, ciliolate. Lamina coriac., dark green above, paler below, ± pubescent, narrowly elliptic to obovate to oblong, cuneately narrowed to base, acute, (3)-5-(10) × 1-3 mm.; margins entire. Midrib alone evident or obscure. Fls greenish. ♂ solitary, terminal, ± 2 cm. long, filaments lengthening at anthesis; calyx obsolete or vestigial; corolla funnelform, lobes acute or subacute. ♀ solitary, terminal; calyx-teeth narrow-triangular; corolla tubular, short. Drupes purplish red or pale blue, globose, 6-8 mm. diam.
Cheeseman gives the drupe-colour as "bluish", Cockayne and Allan as "translucent, faintly stained very pale blue". Deeper blue forms also occur.

Coprosma petriei Cheeseman

2n = 44
n = 22

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Coprosma petriei Cheeseman
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Coprosma petriei Cheeseman
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Coprosma petriei Cheeseman
New Zealand
Coprosma petriei Cheeseman
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Coprosma petriei Cheeseman
New Zealand
Hawke's Bay Land District
Coprosma petriei Cheeseman
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Coprosma petriei Cheeseman
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Coprosma petriei Cheeseman
New Zealand
Southland Land District
Coprosma petriei Cheeseman
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Coprosma petriei Cheeseman
New Zealand
Westland Land District

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1 January 2000
22 June 2004
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