Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Caryophyllales Juss. ex Bercht. & J.Presl
Family
Nyctaginaceae
Genus
Ceodes J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Ceodes brunoniana (Endl.) Skottsb., Acta Horti Gothob. 2: 231 (1926)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Pisonia brunoniana Endl., Prodr. Fl. Norfolk. 43 (1833)
  • ≡ Heimerliodendron brunonianum (Endl.) Skottsb., Svensk Botanisk Tidskrift 35: 44 (1942)
  • = Pisonia sinclairii Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. I. (Fl. Antarct.) Part I, 209, t. 50 (1845)
  • = Calpidia brunoniana Heimerl, Österreichische Botanische Zeitschrift 63: 283 (1913)
 Description

Shrub or tree up to 6 m. tall or more; trunk up to 6 dm. diam.; branches brittle. Lvs opp. to subwhorled, 10–40 × 5–15 cm., on petioles up to 3 cm. long; lamina glab., submembr., entire, oblong to obovate-oblong, obtuse. Panicles many-fld, bracts foliaceous, pedicels ± pubescent. Per. up to 10 mm. long, greenish, pubescent to glabrate; stamens 6–8, anthers not or very slightly exserted. Fruiting per. elongate, narrow, constricted below mouth; ribs 5, papillose, very viscid, enclosing fr.

[From:  Allan  (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1 as Heimerliodendron brunonianum (Endl.) Skottsb.]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Non-endemic)
 Bibliography
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Svensk Botanisk Tidskrift