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Manoao Molloy

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Manoao Molloy, New Zealand J. Bot. 33: 196-198 (1995)
Manoao Molloy

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Endemic
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New Zealand
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Molloy
Molloy
1995
196-198
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Manoao Molloy
genus
Manoao
The name Manoao is the Maori name for the single species in the genus.

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Manoao

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Manoao Molloy

Bushy shrubs or conical to oblong moderately longlived evergreen trees up to 20 m tall and 100 cm diam., with uniformly erect stems, branches, and branchlets, and strong sucker shoots from horizontal underground stems. Trees mostly single-leadered, strongly tapered, straight-grained, and clear of lower branches and defects, with prominent branch scars and abruptly upturned branch bases. Bark on mature trees forming thick irregular scales and vertical scale complexes, shedding slowly, leaving behind distinct hammer marks and wave patterns; outer surface of scales silvery-grey to grey-brown, with a veneer of weathered resin and small, rounded, stalk-like lenticels with brown craters; undersurface crimson, glistening with fresh resin, hard, with silvery-grey, weathered, often scalloped margins; shed bark forming a small raised mound of litter filled with fine roots at base of tree. Roots of mature trees oblique, peg-like, deeply descending; mycorrhizal nodules simple or in extensive branched complexes, epidermal hairs absent. Roots and underground stems of shrubs and sucker shoots forming dense red-brown entanglements; aerenchyma universally present in roots and underground stems under anaerobic conditions. Cotyledons c. 12.0 × 2.0 mm, submembranous, spreading horizontally, epistomatic. Primary axis of seedlings and juveniles erect. Leaves polymorphic; on adult branchlets c. 3.0 × 1.5 mm, rhomboid, scale-like, keeled, closely imbricate and whipcord-like, decurrent at base, spirally arranged, amphistomatic; Florin ring distinct though sunken; marginal frill distinct, continuous; older leaves very persistent, brown, semi-woody. Leaves on seedlings at first 5.0-10.0 mm long, subulate, bristle-like, spreading, decurrent at base, spirally arranged, amphistomatic; successive leaves initially longer, becoming progressively shorter, bilaterally flattened, falcate to triangular, graded in size, and secondarily 3-ranked and spiralled; ultimately scale-like, keeled, imbricate. No specialised resting buds formed. Plants unisexual, with inconstant males and females. Male cones solitary or rarely paired, terminal on foliage branchlets, sessile, with up to 12 sporophylls each with 2 sporangia; pollen with a thin-walled, finely tuberculate cappa and 2 prominent sacci. Female cones solitary, terminal on foliage branchlets, erect by curvature of cone axis, consisting of 2-5(-6) spoon-shaped ± spreading fertile bracts separated by short internodes, sometimes with a sterile cap; ovules borne in a median position on adaxial surface of fertile bract, initially obliquely inclined towards cone axis and partially inverted, becoming erect at maturity; bracts in distal region of cone sterile, reduced in size. Seeds 1-3(-5), erect, crowded if more than one; c. 3.5 × 2.5 mm, narrowly oblong, rounded in cross-section, with a small rounded recurved micropyle; seed coat purple to black with a glaucous sheen, finely striated; epimatium swollen, fleshy, greenish-yellow, ± smooth-margined, forming a split keeled asymmetrical sheath around base of seed. Seeds maturing in c. 1 year from cone induction, germinating in second summer following maturation, and dispersed mainly by birds.
Lagarostrobo Quinn, ut hie emendato, similis, strobilo femineo laxo e bracteis pluribus fertilibus cochlearibus composito, ovulis obliquis partim inversis, foliisque ad maturitatem imbricatis squamiformibus, differt autem fruticis arborisque habitu, caulibus ramis ramulisque erectis, vitae summa multo breviore, cotyledonibus linearibus epistomaticis, polymorphis plantularum plantarumque juvenalium foliis, stomatibus Florinii annulum prominentem etsi depressum exhibentibus, ligno resinifero, mycorrhizalibus radicis nodulis ab epidermalibus pilis destitutis, caulibus subterraneis, aerenchymate abundanti, pollinis grano tuberculato parietibus tenuibus sacculisque duobus prominentibus ornato, strobilo femineo erecto 2-6 bracteis fertilibus praedito, semine oblongo velo rotundato cum in sectione transversali visus est, epimatio tumido carnoso.

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Manoao Molloy
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Etymology
The name Manoao is the Maori name for the single species in the genus.

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1 January 2000
26 August 2022
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