- Taxon
- Gallery
- = Trichilia monophylla A.Rich., Essai Fl. Nouv.-Zél., 306, t. 34 (1832)
- = Pittosporum fasciculatum Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 24 (1853)
- ≡ Pittosporum tenuifolium var. fasciculatum (Hook.f.) Kirk, Stud. Fl. New Zealand 47 (1899)
- ≡ Pittosporum colensoi var. fasciculatum (Hook.f.) Cheeseman, Man. New Zealand Fl. 53 (1906)
- = Pittosporum tenuifolium subsp. fasciculatum (Hook.f.) Kirk, Trans. New Zealand Inst. 4: 262 (1872)
Tree up to ± 8 m. tall; trunk up to 3–(4) dm. diam.; bark dark; branchlets and young lvs ± pubescent. Lvs alt., on short petioles. Lamina oblong to oblong-ovate to elliptic-obovate, obtuse to acute or occ. acuminate, (1)–3–(7) × (0·5)–1–2 cm., entire, thinly coriac., ± undulate; us. rather pale green above, lighter below. Fls somewhat fragrant, axillary, solitary or in small cymes on short pedicels; bracts soon falling. Sepals narrowly ovate-oblong, subacute to obtuse, silky-hairy when young. Petals very dark red (almost black), ± 12 mm. long; limb spreading, at length reflexed. Ovary hairy, style rather long, Capsules ± 12 mm. diam., 2-valved, subglobose; valves glab., rugulose when mature, thinly woody, nearly black when mature.
[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1.]
Flowering: Oct.–Nov.; Fruiting: Jan.–Mar.