Pittosporum roimata Gemmill & S.N.Carter

NZOR Identifier: dcb562d6-5fb1-4ac8-af18-ee40beedb060

Authority: Gemmill & S.N.Carter
Rank: species
Published in: Carter, S.N.; Miller, S.; Meyer, S.J.; Gemmill, C.E.C. 2018: A new species of Pittosporum described from the Poor Knights Islands, Northland, Aotearoa/New Zealand. Systematic Botany 43(2): 633–643.
Micro-reference (page): 636-641
Year: 2018
Nomenclatural Comment: The Maori specific epithet ‘roimata’ was chosen through consultation with Te Whakapiko te hapu o Ngati Manaia te iwi, Whananaki, Aotearoa. We quote the kaumatua Marie Tautari and David Peters here: “According to oral tradition after the massacre took place on the Poor Knights two canoe loads of the dead were taken to the mainland at Whananaki and buried at a place called Roimata., TYPE: NEW ZEALAND, North Island, Poor Knights Islands, Tawhiti Rahi. Beneath pohutakawa forest on summit plateau. Terrestrial, flowers yellow. 9 Sept. 1980 A. E. Wright 3951 (holotype: AK 155344).

NZOR Concept Id: 29c27826-daaa-4629-9f08-7f882517a2ea
According to: Carter, S.N.; Miller, S.; Meyer, S.J.; Gemmill, C.E.C. 2018: A new species of Pittosporum described from the Poor Knights Islands, Northland, Aotearoa/New Zealand. Systematic Botany 43(2): 633–643.
Preferred Name: Pittosporum roimata Gemmill & S.N.Carter (In use by NZOR) }

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