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Classification
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Nestegis cunninghamii (Hook.f.) L.A.S.Johnson, Fl. Hawaiiensis [Degener]
F. Hawaiiensis [Degener] 300 (1958)
Vernacular Name(s):
black maire; Maire; Maire raunui; Pau
Description
Tree up to ± 20 m. tall; trunk up to 1·5m. diam.; branchlets pubescent. Lvs on rather stout petioles up to ± 10 mm. long; lamina of juveniles narrow-linear, acute, coriac., glab.; of adults lanceolate to ovate- or elliptic-lanceolate, obtuse or subacute, coriac., glab., somewhat rough; midrib impressed above, prominent below. Racemens 8–12-fld, 10–25 mm. long, rather stout; axis and pedicels densely pubescent. ♂ with 2 large exserted anthers, ovary rud. ♀ with 2 sessile barren anthers, ovary with large 2-lobed stigma. Drupe ± 12–16 mm. long, ovoid.
[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1 as Olea cunninghamii Hook.f.]
Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
Bibliography
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R.; Barkla J.W.; Courtney, S.P.; Champion, P.D.; Perrie, L.R.; Beadel, S.N.; Ford, K.A.; Breitwieser, I.; Schönberger, I.; Hindmarsh-Walls, R.; Heenan, P.B.; Ladley, K. 2018: Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2017. New Zealand Threat Classification Series. No. 22. [Not Threatened]
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R.; Champion, P.D.; Courtney, S.P.; Heenan, P.B.; Barkla, J.W.; Cameron, E.K.; Norton, D.A.; Hitchmough, R.A. 2013: Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2012. New Zealand Threat Classification Series 3. Department of Conservation, Wellington. [Not Threatened]
Dupin, J.; Hong-Wa, C.; Pillon, Y.; Besnard, G. 2022: From the Mediterranean to the Pacifc: re-circumscription towards Notelaea s.l. and historical biogeography of a generic complex in Oleinae (Oleaceae). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 200(3): 360–377.
Green, P.S. 1963: The Genus Nestegis from New Zealand. Journal of the Arnold Arboretum 44: 377–389.
Johnson, L.A.S. 1958: Nestegis. Degener, O. (ed.) Flora Hawaiiensis.
