Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Asterales Link
Family
Alseuosmiaceae
Genus
Alseuosmia A.Cunn.
 Subordinate Taxa
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Alseuosmia banksii A.Cunn., Ann. Nat. Hist. 2: 209 (1839)
Synonymy:
  • = Alseuosmia atriplicifolia A.Cunn., Ann. Nat. Hist. 2: 210 (1839)
  • = Alseuosmia palaeiformis A.Cunn., Ann. Nat. Hist. 2: 210 (1939)
Vernacular Name(s):
Matuku-roimata; Pere
 Description

Bushy slender shrub up to c. 1 m. tall; branchlets slender, spreading, red-brown, pubescent. Lvs on petioles up to 10 mm. long, slender, flattened, pubescent. Lamina submembr., us. ± red-flushed or -flecked, broad-ovate to broad-elliptic to obovate in outline, us. cuneately narrowed to base, of 2 main dimensions on different plants((a) 10–20 × 7–10–(14) mm.; (b) 5–10 × 5–7 mm. Margins coarsely toothed to deeply lobed, especially in upper part; often subentire in smaller lvd group. Infl. of solitary fls or 2–3 together. Fls (5)–8–12–(14) mm. long (plant may flower when only 30 cm. tall). Calyx ± pubescent; lobes 4, bluntly triangular, ± pubescent, Corolla ± 12 mm. long; tube very slightly flaring, greenish yellow, ± red-tinged as are the 4 broad-triangular fimbriate lobes. Berry puberulous when young, 5–9 × 4–7 mm., subglobose to subturbinate, red.

[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1.]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
Number of subspecific taxa in New Zealand within Alseuosmia banksii A.Cunn.
CategoryNumber
Indigenous (Endemic)2
Total2
 Phenology

Flowering: Jun.–Nov.; Fruiting: Feb.–Mar.

 Bibliography
Cunningham, A. 1839a: Florae Insularum Novae Zelandiae Precursor. Annals of Natural History 2: 209.
Cunningham, A. 1839b: Florae insularum Novae Zelandiae precursor; or a specimen of the botany of the islands of New Zealand. Annals of Natural History 2: 205–214.
Gardner, R.O. 1978: The species of Alseuosmia (Alseuosmiaceae). New Zealand Journal of Botany 16: 271–277.