Banks Peninsula, Governor's Bay, Old Anglican Vicarage
Verbatim locality:
Banks Peninsula, Governor's Bay, Old Anglican Vicarage
Verbatim collector:
W.R. Sykes 30/07
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
15 Apr 2007
Start date:
2007-04-15
Country:
New Zealand
Land District:
Canterbury Land District
Habitat:
Cultivated.
Notes:
Small trees c. 3 m high. Shoots ± puberulous. Leaves ± bullate with impressed veins above. Male catkins ± pendent, variable in number at a node as well as diam., some being fat and appearing like female catkins of the related genus Ostrya. Fruits with the nuts enveloped loosely by 2 multi-lobed bracts united proximally, these up to nearly 2 x length of nut. Nuts shining brown, tending flattened laterally. Specimens of nut probably include those on neighbouring trees.