New Zealand Journal of Botany abstracts

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The parapara, Pisonia brunoniana (Nyctaginaceae)

W. R. SYKES

Botany Division, DSIR
Private Bag, Christchurch, New Zealand

Abstract The name Pisonia brunoniana is accepted for the parapara or bird-catcher tree. This Australasian taxon is considered specifically dis- tinct from the widespread tropical Indo-Pacific P. umbellifera (J. R. et G. Forst.) Seem. The mono- typic genus Heimerliodendron Skottsb. is not accepted.

Keywords Pisonia brunoniana; P. umbellifera; hermaphrodite/unisexual flowers; biogeography; Heimerliodendron; Nyctaginaceae

Received 25 August 1986; accepted 3 November 1986
New Zealand Journal of Botany, 1987, Vol. 25: 459-466
0028-825X/87/2503-0459$2.50/0 © Crown copyright 1987

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