Nothofagus fusca
Nothofagus fusca
Nothofagus fusca is one that lives only in New Zealand representatives of the note book ( Nothofagus ).
Features
Nothofagus fusca is a tree and reaches stature heights of up to 30 m. The trunk can reach a diameter of 2 m or more, often it is spannrückig.
The leaves are rather thin and leathery. They are 20 - 40 x 15 - 25 mm in size. The petiole is long and 4 mm. The leaf blade is bare, except for the nerves to the underside of leaves. The leaf blade is broad - oval to oval-oblong. The leaf margin is rough and rather deep and sharply serrated, 6 to 8 pairs of teeth. In the basal nerve axils there are one or two Domatien. Young plants tend to have thinner and more serrated leaves.
The male inflorescences are on the branches alone up to eight. The inflorescence stems are hairless and up to 4 mm long. You one to three, rarely five flowers. The perianth is 5 mm long, bell-shaped, five-lobed flat blunted. It is hardly hairy up close. There are 8 to 11 stamens. The anthers are 2 mm long, red, yellow or straw yellow. The female inflorescences are up to fifth on the branch, are sessile, ovate to globose, 3 mm long, glabrous and usually consist of three flowers. The lateral flowers are in threes, the terminal is bidentate. The scars are tongue-shaped and distinctly bilobed. The cupula is hairy and four-piece. The nuts are 7 mm long, triangular or flat. The wings are tapered in width and wedge-shaped at the base.
The wood is dark red fresh. The bark is up, dark, furrowed with large scales.
Dissemination and locations
Nothofagus fusca occurs on both main islands of New Zealand, from the 37th degree of latitude south. However, you're missing on Mount Egmont. It grows in lowland and mountain forest.
She prefers hill country and valley floors in the country, especially where the soil is fertile and well drained. A mycorrhizal partners of the species is the mushroom stand Boletopsis nothofagi.
Taxonomy
Nothofagus fusca was first described by Joseph Dalton Hooker in 1844 as Fagus fusca. The first description was published in the seventh edition of Icones Plantarum his father, William Jackson Hooker. The type specimen is in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and was collected by the Reverend William Colenso.
1873 type of Oersted was transferred to the genus nothofagus.