| Dicotyledon | Literature for Pittosporum viridiflorum
Wagner et al., 1990, 1999. |
| Pittosporaceae | Bibliography |
| Pittosporum viridiflorum | |
Common name(s): pittosporum, cape pittosporum |
| General Information | ||
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| Distribution | Native to South Africa.In the Hawaiian Islands, naturalized on O`ahu, Lana`i, Maui, Hawai`i. | |
| Habit |
Small trees 3-6 m tall, young parts and inflorescences sparsely puberulent; branches glabrous. |
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| Leaves |
Leaves leathery, 6-15 cm long, 2.2-4 cm wide, glabrous, margins minutely revolute, apex bluntly acuminate to rounded, base attenuate, petioles 0.6-1.5 cm long. |
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| Flowers |
Flowers perfect, numerous in terminal, branched, corymbose inflorescences, peduncles 0-8 mm long, pedicels slender, 5-7 mm long; sepals elliptic, ca. 1.5 mm long, margins scarious; petals yellowish green, 5-6 mm long, margins slightly revolute and erose; ovary 2-carpellate. |
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| Fruit |
Capsules depressed-subglobose, slightly compressed, 4-5 mm long, the valves with thin exocarp, the surface minutely rugulose. |
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| Seeds |
Seeds 4-6, reddish black, subreniform, somewhat compressed, ca. 3.5-4 mm long. |
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| Chromosomes |
2n = 24 |
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