Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Rosales Bercht. & J.Presl
Family
Moraceae
Genus
Streblus Lour.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Streblus banksii (Cheeseman) C.J.Webb in Connor & Edgar, New Zealand J. Bot. 25: 136 (1987)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Paratrophis banksii Cheeseman, Man. New Zealand Fl. 633 (1906)
  • = Trophis opaca Banks & Sol. ex Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 224 (1853) pro parte
  • ≡ Paratrophis opaca (Banks & Sol. ex Hook.f.) Britton & Rendle, J. Bot. 45: 74 (1907)
  • = Paratrophis heterophylla var. elliptica Kirk (1897)
  • ≡ Streblus heterophyllus var. ellipticus (Kirk) Corner, 19: 222 (1962)
Vernacular Name(s):
Ewekuri; Large-leaved milk tree; Pukariao; Tōwai; Tūrepo
 Description

Tree up to 12 m. tall; bark dark brown; branchlets ± pubescent when young, lenticels ∞. Lvs of juvenile plants 2–6 × 1–3 cm., about elliptic-oblong in outline; margins crenate, often deeply lobed, sinus obtuse. Lvs of adults 3·5–8·5 × 2–3·5 cm., on petioles up to 1 cm. long, us. less; lamina ovate to broad-ovate to ovate-elliptic, obtuse to subacute, margins crenate. Spikes axillary, rarely terminal, solitary or paired or rarely 3 together; staminate up to 3 cm. long, densely fld; pistillate up to 2.5 cm. long, fls distichously arranged. Drupe broad-ovoid, red, c. 6·5 mm. diam.

[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1 as Paratrophis banksii Cheeseman]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
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