Literature for Metrosideros polymorpha Wagner et al., 1990, 1999. Literature for Metrosideros polymorpha var. dieteri Wagner et al., 1990, 1999. Literature for Metrosideros polymorpha var. glaberrima Wagner et al., 1990, 1999. Literature for Metrosideros polymorpha var. incana Wagner et al., 1990, 1999. Literature for Metrosideros polymorpha var. macrophylla Wagner et al., 1990, 1999. Literature for Metrosideros polymorpha var. newellii Wagner et al., 1990, 1999. Literature for Metrosideros polymorpha var. polymorpha Wagner et al., 1990, 1999. Literature for Metrosideros polymorpha var. pseudorugosa Wagner et al., 1990, 1999. Literature for Metrosideros polymorpha var. pumila Wagner et al., 1990, 1999.
Myrtaceae -- The Myrtle Family	Bibliography
Metrosideros polymorpha

General Information
Distribution
Habit	Small erect to prostrate shrubs to tall trees, bark usually rough and fissured, separating in thick flakes, sometimes smooth and separating in long thin strips, vegetative buds obovoid.
Leaves	Leaves obovate to orbicular or sometimes elliptic, broadly ovate, or ovate, 1-8 cm long, 1-5.5 cm wide, several pairs of raised veins radiating from base, upper surface glabrous, lower surface glabrous or woolly or appressed pubescent, margins revolute to flat, apex rounded or sometimes obtuse to acute, base cuneate to cordate, petioles usually short, usually much less than 1/3 as long as blades, 1-16 mm long, 1-3 mm wide.
Flowers	Flowers red, in inflorescences of 2-5 pairs of cymules, glabrous or appressed or woolly pubescent, peduncles 7-18 mm long, 1-3 mm wide, pedicels 2-8 mm long, 1-2 mm wide, bracts broadly ovate to suborbicular, 5-10 mm long, 3-5 mm wide; hypanthium 3-7 mm high, 3-8 mm wide; sepals rounded to triangular, 1.5-4 mm long, 1.5-3 mm wide; petals obovate to orbicular, 2.5-5 mm long, 2-4.5 mm wide; stamens 1-3 cm long; style 1.3-3 cm long. Fruiting hypanthium 3-8 mm long and wide, pubescent or glabrous.
Fruit	Capsules slightly included to exserted.
Chromosomes	2n = 22*