Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Rosales Bercht. & J.Presl
Family
Moraceae
Genus
Streblus Lour.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Streblus smithii (Cheeseman) Corner, 19: 221 (1962)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Paratrophis smithii Cheeseman, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 20: 148 (1887 [1888])
Vernacular Name(s):
Smith's milkwood; Three Kings milk tree
 Description

Shrub or tree up to 5 m. tall; bark dark brown; branchlets slender, flexuous; lenticels ∞. Lvs entire, dark green, coriac., 10–20 cm. long, up to 12 cm. wide, on stout petioles up to 15 mm. long; lamina ovate- to elliptic-oblong, obtuse to subacute, rounded to obliquely cordate at base; stipules lanceolate, caducous. Spikes solitary or paired, 5–12 cm. long, per.-segs 3–4 mm. diam., pubescent on back. ♂ with spreading segs; ♀ minute, in 2 irregular dense rows on flattened axis, segs appressed. Drupe globose, bright red, 8–9 mm. diam.

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

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Bibliography
Cheeseman, T.F. 1888 ("1887"): Notes on the Three Kings Islands. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 20: 141–150.
Connor, H.E.; Edgar, E. 1987: Name changes in the indigenous New Zealand flora, 1960–1986 and Nomina Nova IV, 1983–1986. New Zealand Journal of Botany 25: 115–170.
Corner, E.J.H. 1962: The Classification of Moraceae. The Gardens’ Bulletin Singapore 19: 187–252.
de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A.; Courtney, S.P.; Heenan, P.B.; Barkla, J.W.; Cameron, E.K.; Hitchmough, R.; Townsend, A.J. 2009: Threatened and uncommon plants of New Zealand (2008 revision). New Zealand Journal of Botany 47: 61–96. [Naturally uncommon]
de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A.; Heenan, P.B.; Courtney, S.P.; Molloy, B.P.J.; Ogle, C.C.; Rance, B.D. 2004: Threatened and uncommon plants of New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 42(1): 45–76.
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. [Naturally Uncommon]
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. [Naturally Uncommon]