Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Santalales R.Br. ex Bercht. & J.Presl
Family
Loranthaceae
Genus
Alepis Tiegh.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Alepis flavida (Hook.f.) Tiegh. (1894)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Loranthus flavidus Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, (1853)
  • ≡ Elytranthe flavida (Hook.f.) Engl. (1897)
  • = Loranthus polychroa Colenso, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 17: 241 (1884 [1885])
Vernacular Name(s):
Mistletoe (NZ); Pirinoa; Pirita
 Description

Rather openly branched glab. shrub up to ± 1 m. tall; branchlets subterete. Lvs opp. on slender flattened petioles up to 5 mm. long. Lamina narrow-oblong to narrow-elliptic, thick, coriac.; veins us. distinct on lower surface; margins thickened, ± crenulate. Infl. of (5)–10–15-fld axillary racemose cymes; axis up to c. 5 cm. long, rather slender; pedicels opp. and decussate, 2–5 mm. long, very slender, ± tetragonous. Bracts obsolete. Receptacle-rim with minute teeth or truncate. Tepals ± 1–2 cm. long, orange-yellow to yellow, inflated above base, splitting almost to middle, linear-spathulate. Anthers very narrow-oblong; styles us. slightly > tepals, stigma large, capitate. Fr. turbinate to ± ovoid, 4–5 mm. long.

[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1 as Elytranthe flavida (Tiegh.) Engl.]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
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