Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Lamiales Bromhead
Family
Oleaceae
Genus
Nestegis Raf.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Nestegis cunninghamii (Hook.f.) L.A.S.Johnson, Fl. Hawaiiensis [Degener] F. Hawaiiensis [Degener] 300 (1958)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Olea cunninghamii Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 175 (1853)
  • ≡ Gymnelaea cunninghamii (Hook.f.) L.A.S.Johnson, Contr. New South Wales Natl. Herb., Fl. Ser. 2: 412 (1957)
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
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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]
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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.
Johnson, L.A.S. 1957: A Review of the Family Oleaceae. Contributions from the New South Wales Herbarium, Flora Series 2: 395–418.
Johnson, L.A.S. 1958: Nestegis. Degener, O. (ed.) Flora Hawaiiensis.
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