Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Laurales Juss. ex Bercht. & J.Presl
Family
Lauraceae Juss.
Genus
Litsea Lam.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Litsea calicaris (Sol. ex A.Cunn.) Benth. & Hook.f. ex Kirk, Forest. Fl. New Zealand 15, t. 10 (1889)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Laurus calicaris Sol. ex A.Cunn., Ann. Nat. Hist. 1: 380 (1838)
  • = Tetranthera tangao R.Cunn. ex A.Cunn., Ann. Nat. Hist. 1: 380 (1838)
  • = Tetranthera calicaris Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part II, 216 (1854)
Vernacular Name(s):
Mangeao; Mangeo; Tangeao; Tangeo
 Description

Tree up to 12m. tall; trunk up to 8 dm. diam.; bark dark. Lvs alt., subcoriac., on petioles up to 2 cm. long; lamina 5–12.5 × 3–5 cm., ovate to oval to ovate-elliptic, obtuse to subacute, glab., ± glaucous below. Umbels 4–5-fld, involucrate, axillary, racemosely arranged; pedicels slightly hairy. Per. segs 5–8, creamy, oblong to ovate, 4–5 mm. long. Stamens c. 12; filaments slender, biglandular; staminodes flattened, biglandular; stigma dilated, irregularly 3-lobed. Drupe subovoid, c. 15–20mm. long, seated in enlarged per. tube; mesocarp reddish.

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

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Phenology

Flowering: Sep.–Oct.; Fruiting: Sep.–Nov.

 Bibliography
Cunningham, A. 1838: Florae insularum Novae Zelandiae precursor; or a specimen of the botany of the islands of New Zealand. Annals of Natural History 1: 376–381.
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. [Not Threatened]
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. [Not Threatened]
Hooker, J.D. 1854–1855: The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H.M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror, in the years 1839–1843, under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross. II. Flora Novae-Zelandiae. Part II. Flowerless plants. Lovell Reeve, London.
Kirk, T. 1889: The forest flora of New Zealand. Wellington, N.Z.