- Taxon
- Gallery
- ≡ Plagianthus lyallii (Hook.f.) Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part II, 326 (1855)
- ≡ Gaya lyallii (Hook.f.) Baker (1892)
- = Gaya lyallii var. ribifolia Kirk, Stud. Fl. New Zealand 72 (1899)
- = Gaya ribifolia Cockayne, Trans. New Zealand Inst. 33: 272 (1901)
Slender deciduous tree up to 6 m. or more tall, with branchlets, lvs and infl. ± densely clad in stellate hairs. Juvenile plants with lvs on slender petioles up to ± 5 cm. long; lamina 2–7 × 2–6 cm., thin, ovate to suborbicular, truncate to cordate, us. deeply 2–5-lobed; teeth doubly, deeply crenate. Adults with lvs on stouter petioles (1)–2–4 cm. long; lamina submembr., (3)–5–10 × 2–5 cm., broad-ovate, truncate to cordate at base or sts rounded both at base and apex; us. deeply doubly or trebly crenate, sts incised-crenate or lobed as in juveniles. Fls 2–3–(4) cm. diam., in cymose, ebracteate, 2–5-fld fascicles to solitary, on slender pedicels (1)–2–3–(5) cm. long. Calyx cupuliform c. 7–10 mm. long, densely pubescent without; teeth 5 (occ. small accessory teeth are present). Petals us. 5, obliquely obovate, us. notched, shortly clawed, up to 2 × 1 cm. Staminal column ± 7 mm. long; filaments 3–5 mm. long, anthers purple. Styles filiform, stellately pilose; stigma obliquely capitate to decurrent. Carpels 10–15, pubescent, compressed, obscurely winged; seeds much compressed.
[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1.]
Flowering: Nov.–Feb.; Fruiting: Jan.–Mar.