| Dicotyledon | Literature for Pittosporum undulatum
Wagner et al., 1990, 1999. |
| Pittosporaceae | Bibliography |
| Pittosporum undulatum | |
Common name(s): pittosporum, orange pittosporum, Victorian box, Victorian laurel |
| General Information | ||
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| Distribution | Native to Australia, widely cultivated.In the Hawaiian Islands, naturalized on Lana`i, Maui, Hawai`i. |
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| Habit |
Trees 5-14 m tall, young parts and inflorescences sparsely brown pilose, the hairs somewhat appressed; branches glabrous. |
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| Leaves |
Leaves chartaceous, narrowly elliptic-ovate to ovate, 5-15 cm long, 2-4 cm wide, glabrous or pilose in very immature leaves, margins undulate, apex acuminate, base cuneate to attenuate, petioles 1.5-3.5 cm long. |
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| Flowers |
Flowers perfect, ca. 5-10 in terminal, branched, corymbose racemes, peduncles 10-32 mm long, pedicels 8-15 mm long, bracts subulate, 6-8 mm long; sepals narrowly lanceolate, 6-9 mm long, pilose, especially along margins, apex long-attenuate; petals white, 9-13 mm long; ovary 2-carpellate. |
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| Fruit |
Capsules depressed-subglobose, slightly compressed, ca. 10-14 mm long, the persistent style ca. 2-3 mm long, the valves with coriaceous exocarp ca. 1-2 mm thick, the surface roughened-rugulose. |
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| Seeds |
Seeds ca. 25, dark brown, angled and compressed, ca. 3 mm long. |
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| Chromosomes |
2n = 24 |
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