Kermadecia Brongn. & Gris

Key to the species of Kermadecia 1. Flowers sessile, paired, each pair on a short peduncle (to 2 mm long), peduncles arranged along the length of an otherwise unbranched inflorescence axis.. K. pronyensis 1a. Flowers pedicellate (pedicels 8 ���16 mm long), arranged in collateral pairs along the length of a branched or unbranched inflorescence axis..................................... 2 2. Abaxial surface of adult leaves densely covered by a ferruginous indumentum of minute hairs; inflorescence axes robust (��� 7 mm diam. near the base)............. K. sinuata 2a. Abaxial surface of adult leaves glabrous or almost so; inflorescence axis less robust (3���4 mm diam. near the base)............................................................................ 3 3. Adult leaves with secondary and tertiary venation sharply raised on abaxial surface of blades; base of blades cordate....................................................... K. brinoniae 3a. Adult leaves with secondary and tertiary venation slightly raised on abaxial surface of blades; base of blades obtuse, rounded or slightly cordate (rarely markedly cordate)...4 4. Main inflorescence axis unbranched............. K. elliptica 4a. Main inflorescence axis commonly with 2 ��� 4 side branches................................................ K. rotundifolia
Published as part of Hopkins, Helen C. F. & Pillon, Yohan, 2019, Kermadecia brinoniae (Proteaceae: Macadamieae), a new species from New Caledonia previously confused with K. elliptica, pp. 85-92 in Candollea 74 (1) on page 86, DOI: 10.15553/c2019v741a9, http://zenodo.org/record/5684522