Английская Википедия:Coriaria pottsiana
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Coriaria pottsiana, commonly called the Hikurangi tutu or Pott's tutu, is a rare low-growing sub-alpine perennial summer-green shrub, only known to exist on a small grassy scree slope behind the tramping hut on Mount Hikurangi in the Gisborne Region of New Zealand's North Island.[1][2][3] The Mt Hikurangi tramping hut is found at Шаблон:Coord.[4]
Description
The delicate shrub grows to a height of Шаблон:Convert, with a Шаблон:Convert spread.[2] It is rhizomatous, with slender four-sided Шаблон:Convert stems growing from its slender rhizomes.[2][3][5] Branches and branchlets are very slender, with small crinkled oblong to broad oval-shaped dark red opposite leaves with wavy margins that sometimes end in a distinct rounded point, are Шаблон:Convert in size, are truncate at their base, are distant, have purplish undersides, and have slender petioles hardly 0.5 mm (Шаблон:Frac in) in length.[2][3] Its racemes are Шаблон:Convert long, and are found at the tip of stems, or elsewhere on main branches.[3] Its white flowers, found on slender pedicels up to Шаблон:Convert in length, are distant, with broadly oval sepals about Шаблон:Convert in size (sometimes toothed), similar petals, and 5 ribbed carpels.[2][3]
Like all Coriaria species, the plant is poisonous, especially the seed inside the small black berries.[5] However, the juice of some Coriaria berries is not poisonous, and was used by Māori, who called members of the genus "tutu".[6]
References
External links
- Coriaria pottsiana on the website of the NZ Plant Conservation Network (with photos)
- Coriaria pottsiana on Oratia Native Plant Nursery's website (with photo)
- Coriaria pottsiana W.R.B.Oliv. (1942) in the Ngā Tipu o Aotearoa – Plants of New Zealand database
- Specimen (holotype) at Te Papa
- Taxonomical description in the Flora of New Zealand series
