Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Ericales Bercht. & J.Presl
 Subordinate Taxa
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Actinidiaceae
 Description

Trees or shrubs, often climbing, dioecious or gynodioecious. Lvs alternate, exstipulate, simple. Fls usually in axillary cymes or fascicles, actinomorphic. Sepals (4)–5, imbricate. Petals (4)–5, imbricate, or somewhat contorted, deciduous. Stamens nearly always numerous, versatile, inflexed in bud. Ovary superior, 3-many-locular; carpel walls sometimes reaching the central axis. Ovules 1-numerous; styles 5-many, usually persistent. Fr. a berry or hard capsule. Seeds small, numerous, endospermic.

[From: Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4.]

 Biostatus
Exotic
Number of species in New Zealand within Actinidiaceae
CategoryNumber
Exotic: Casual3
Total3
 Bibliography
Cronquist, A. 1988: The evolution and classification of flowering plants. The New York Botanic Gardens, New York.
Kubitzki, K. 2004: VI Flowering Plants. Dicotyledons: Celestrales, Oxalidales, Rosales, Cornales, Ericales. Kubitzki, K. (ed.) The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants. Spinger-Verlag, Berlin. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
Mabberley, D.J. 2008: Mabberley's plant book, a portable dictionary of plants, their classification and uses. Edition 3. Cambridge University Press.