Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Malvales Juss. ex Bercht. & J.Presl
Family
Malvaceae
Genus
Hoheria A.Cunn.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Hoheria equitum Heads, New Zealand J. Bot. 38: 374-377 (2000)
 Description

Evergreen tree to 6 m tall, more or less glabrous except the young shoots and flower buds which are clad in stellate hairs, bark fibrous, tough, branches slender, sucker shoots frequent. Juvenile foliage not seen. Leaves yellow-green, alternate, (3.5-)7-15 × ( 1.5-)3-9.5 cm, elliptic to broadly elliptic, apex obtuse to subacuminate, acumen, where present, often obtuse; young leaves with stellate hairs abaxially, soon glabrescent; margins recurved, entire or distantly and rather obscurely serrate with blunt teeth up to 1(-2) mm long, petiole (1)-2.5(-3) cm long, stipules linear, 3.5 × 0.5 mm. Flowers in axillary fascicles of 1-3(- 15) flowers solitary on articulated pedicels (probably equivalent to a peduncle plus pedicel) 10(-20) mm long, bearing few hairs, Flowers hermaphrodite, regular, up to 10(-23) mm across. Epicalyx absent. Calyx rather deeply toothed, lobes 5, 2 × 2 mm, clad in sparse stellate hairs when young, without adaxial glands. Petals 5, white, obtuse, asymmetrical with a notch on one side of the apex, slightly clawed at base. Staminal column adnate to corolla, bearing c. 20 stamens in 5 bundles, sparse, stiff hairs present abaxially at base of staminal tube, anthers dark red before dehiscence, fading to pale yellow, mono- thecous. Ovary superior, 5-celled, 1.8 × 1.5 mm, with a crown of short hairs at the apex, Ovules pendulous, 1 in each cell. Style branches 5, stigma 0.5 mm wide, capitate or obliquely capitate, not decurrent. Fruit not seen. FL Jan-Mar.

[Reproduced from Heads (2000, New Zealand J. Bot. 38: 373-377) with permission from The Royal Society of New Zealand.]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Bibliography
de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A.; Courtney, S.P.; Heenan, P.B.; Barkla, J.W.; Cameron, E.K.; Hitchmough, R.; Townsend, A.J. 2009: Threatened and uncommon plants of New Zealand (2008 revision). New Zealand Journal of Botany 47: 61–96. [Naturally uncommon]
de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A.; Heenan, P.B.; Courtney, S.P.; Molloy, B.P.J.; Ogle, C.C.; Rance, B.D. 2004: Threatened and uncommon plants of New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 42(1): 45–76.
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R.; Barkla J.W.; Courtney, S.P.; Champion, P.D.; Perrie, L.R.; Beadel, S.N.; Ford, K.A.; Breitwieser, I.; Schönberger, I.; Hindmarsh-Walls, R.; Heenan, P.B.; Ladley, K. 2018: Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2017. New Zealand Threat Classification Series. No. 22. [Naturally Uncommon]
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. [Naturally Uncommon]
Heads, M.J. 2000: A new species of Hoheria (Malvaceae) from the Poor Knights Islands and Hen and Chicken Islands, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 38(3): 373–377.