Kunzea robusta (Kunzea robusta)
Description
Widespread,common tree of North and South Islands.Bark usually basally detached long leathery strips.Branches bearing masses of green leaves and clusters of small white flowers.Branchlets usually copiously covered in silky,appressed hairs.Leaves variable in size (up to 28 mm long),soft to grasp.Flowers borne in 'corymbiform' clusters,white with a red centre.Fruit a small dry capsule 2.2–4.6 × 3.2–5.3 mm.Trees 8–30 m tall.Trunk 1–6,0.10–1.0 m d.b.h.Bark stringy,or coarsely tessellated,coriaceous,firmly attached above,detaching basally,often hanging semidetached;peeling upwards along trunk in narrow to broad,tabular strips up to 4 m long.Branches initially erect,soon arching outwards and spreading;branchlets numerous,slender;sericeous,indumentum copious,hairs either long or short antrorse-appressed;if long,then weakly flexuose 0.15–0.38 mm long;if short,not flexuose,0.09–0.15 mm long.In eastern Coromandel Peninsula and coastal East Cape to Mahia Peninsula,branchlet indumentum in mixtures of divergent 0.03–0.08 mm long hairs,and sparse,0.1–0.2 mm long,antrorse-appressed hairs.In the Rangitikei region.
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Phylum:
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Class: Magnoliopsida
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Order: Myrtales
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Family: Myrtaceae
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Genus: Kunzea
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