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Muehlenbeckia axillaris (Hook.f.) Endl.

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Muehlenbeckia axillaris (Hook.f.) Endl., Gen. Pl. [Endlicher] Suppl. 4(2): 51 (1848)
Muehlenbeckia axillaris (Hook.f.) Endl.

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region

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(Hook.f.) Endl.
Hook.f.
Endl.
1848
Suppl. 4(2): 51
ICN
species
Muehlenbeckia axillaris

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Prostrate or occ. straggling shrub forming dense to open patches up to 1 m. or more across; stems and branches subterranean or creeping on surface, rooting at nodes where substratum favourable; branchlets slender, decumbent, ± pubescent. Lvs on slender petioles (1)-2-3-(5) mm. long; ochreae 2-3 mm. long, obliquely truncate. Lamina (2)-3-5-(10) mm. long or in diam., coriac., broad- to ovate-oblong to suborbicular, sts retuse; dark green above, paler below. Fls ± 4 mm. diam., solitary or paired (rarely up to 5 in a fascicle), axillary on slender pedicels. Tepals united to halfway, lobes narrow-triangular. ♀ with fimbriate stigmas; tepals white and succulent or dry in fr. (both forms may occur on same plant.) Fr. ± 3 × 1·75 mm., trigonous, somewhat glossy, black.

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Muehlenbeckia axillaris (Hook.f.) Endl.
Muehlenbeckia axillaris (Hook.f.) Endl.
Muehlenbeckia axillaris (Hook.f.) Endl.
Muehlenbeckia axillaris (Hook.f.) Endl.
Muehlenbeckia axillaris (Hook.f.) Endl.
Muehlenbeckia axillaris (Hook.f.) Endl.
Muehlenbeckia axillaris (Hook.f.) Endl.
Muehlenbeckia axillaris (Hook.f.) Endl.
Muehlenbeckia axillaris (Hook.f.) Endl.
Muehlenbeckia axillaris (Hook.f.) Endl.
Muehlenbeckia axillaris (Hook.f.) Endl.
Muehlenbeckia hypogaea Colenso
Muehlenbeckia axillaris (Hook.f.) Endl.
Polygonum axilaris Hook.f.
Muehlenbeckia axillaris (Hook.f.) Endl.

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Muehlenbeckia axillaris (Hook.f.) Endl.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Muehlenbeckia axillaris (Hook.f.) Endl.
New Zealand
Hawke's Bay Land District
Muehlenbeckia axillaris (Hook.f.) Endl.
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Muehlenbeckia axillaris (Hook.f.) Endl.
New Zealand
Southland Land District
Muehlenbeckia axillaris (Hook.f.) Endl.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Muehlenbeckia axillaris (Hook.f.) Endl.
New Zealand
Westland Land District
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
New Zealand
Hawke's Bay Land District
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
New Zealand
Otago Land District
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
New Zealand
Westland Land District

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beaf2250-1eac-4280-a136-60ee6f12bb4c
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Names_Plants
22 August 2006
24 October 2007
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