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Genus Coprosma Forst
Coprosma australis (A. Rich.) Robinson.
1832. Ronabea australis A Rich. Fl. Nouv Zel. 187.
1853. Coprosma grandifolia Hook. f Fl. Nov Zel I 104.
1910. C. australis Robinson, Proc. Am. Acad. Arts and Science, 45. 40S.
1925 C. grandifolia Cheesem. Man N.Z. Fl (2nd Ed.) 858.
1928 C. vulcanica W. R. B. Oliver, Trans N. Z. Inst. 59: 303, Fig. 23.
1935 C. australis W. R. B. Oliver, Bishop Mus Bull. 132: 107. Fig. 59A, Fig. 35.
Locality. Ormond B195/25.
Age. Castlecliffian (Pleistocene).
The fossil described by Oliver (1928) as C. vulcanica is stated to differ from C. australis in having a wider angle between midrib and secondaries, in being
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less cuneate at base and apex, and in its emarginate apex. Recent specimens vary in all these characters to such an extent that the fossil cannot be systematically separated.