Family MALVACEAE Jussieu, 1789

Genus PLAGIANTHUS Forster and Forster, 1776 or HOHERIA Cunningham, 1839a

Plagianthus sp. or Hoheria sp.

Figure 15

Material. Present in 5% of the shelters with dry vegetation. Shelter-033: LX2948, LX2950, LX2951; Shelter-040: LX3250, LX3259, LX3260; Shelter-068: SL 6480; Shelter-103: LX2520; Shelter-112: LX5516.

Remarks. Cuticle fragments with sessile branching (sometimes) stellate and simple glandular trichomes are Malvaceae . In the Central Otago context, based on previously described seed and bark remains (Wood and Walker, 2008; McGlone and Wood, 2019), the cuticle is most likely Plagianthus or perhaps Hoheria . However, features to distinguish between these two based on cuticles are uncertain, and further identification is not made at this stage.