Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Family
Paracryphiaceae Airy Shaw
Genus
Quintinia A.DC.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Quintinia elliptica Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 78 (1852)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Quintinia serrata var. elliptica (Hook.f.) Kirk, Stud. Fl. New Zealand 137 (1899)
 Description

"Very similar to but smaller" (Hook. f. Handbk N.Z. Fl. 1864, 59). Lvs 2–7 × 1–3 cm., on petioles up to 2 cm. long; lamina elliptic to broad-elliptic, obtuse to subacute, not blotched, distantly rather obscurely serrate to entire. Racemes 3·5–6 cm. long; pedicels 2–3 mm. long; petals 1·5–2 mm. long, ovate-oblong. Capsules 4–5 mm. long, including style.

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

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Bibliography
Hooker, J.D. 1852–1853 ("1853"): 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 I. Flowering plants. Lovell Reeve, London.
Kirk,T. 1899: The Students' Flora of New Zealand and the Outlying Islands. Government Printer, Wellington, N.Z.