New Zealand Journal of Botany abstracts

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Fossil Pomaderris apeta/a-type pollen in North-West Nelson: reflecting extension of wet sclerophyll forests in south-eastern Australia?

M. K. Macphail

Department of Geography, University of Tasmania, Box 252C, G.P.O. Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia

Abstract Pomaderris apetala (Rhamnaceae) is likely to be another example of pollen dispersed across the Tasman Sea from Australia. Fossil occurrences of this pollen type in North-West Nelson, South Island, New Zealand, appear to record a regional extension of Pomaderris, and probably an increase in Eucalyptus wet sclerophyll forest, in south-eastern Australia during the early to middle Holocene.

Keywords Pomaderris apetala; Rhamnaceae; pollen analysis; pollen morphology; North-West Nelson, New Zealand; wet sclerophyll forest; south-eastern Australia; Tasmania; long-distance dispersal; Holocene

Received 17 March 1980
New Zealand Journal of Botany, 1981, Vol. 19:17-22

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