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NZ Plants

Fuscospora truncata - tawhai, tawai, hard beech

Southern beech family: Nothofagaceae

Fuscospora truncata is a tree with thick furrowed bark and leathery, oval dark green leaves. Formerly placed in the genus Nothofagus.
An endemic species found in lowland forest from near Mangonui on the North Island to the northern portion of the South Island and after a gap, in South America.
 

Vegetative characteristics

Reproductive characteristics

Plant form: tree up to 30 m

Arrangement of parts: symmetric

Leaf form: undivided, broadly oval

Flower size:  2-3mm diam.

Leaf size: 2-4 cm

Tepals (sepals indistinguishable from petals): 5

Leaf arrangement: singly along stem

Sexuality: unisexual on the same plant

Leaf attachment: stipule

Stamens: 10-13

Leaf margin: toothed

Ovary: below petals

Leaf surface: hairs

Fruit: dry


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