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Gunnera ×mixta Kirk

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Kirk
Kirk
1895
344
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Gunnera ×mixta Kirk
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Gunnera ×mixta

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×mixta

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Gunnera monoica Raoul × Gunnera prorepens Hook.f.

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Gunnera ×mixta Kirk

Kirk's description is: "Rhizomes slender; leaves 11/2 in.-21/2 in. long, with weak scattered hairs on petiole and blade; blade ovate or slightly cordate, rounded at the apex, crenate but not lobed. Scape very slender, unbranched, exceeding the leaves; upper flowers lax, sessile or shortly pedicelled; staminate, pistillate, and hermaphrodite flowers intermixed, staminate mostly pedicellate; perianth segments 2, narrow linear-oblong, obtuse; female perianth segments 4, ovate, unequal, sometimes with two linear-oblong processes springing from the base of the segment; hermaphrodite flowers with ovate segments alternating with two linear-oblong; filaments short, anthers apparently abortive. Fruit not seen . . . simple, lax, subracemose scape exceeding the leaves, which distinguishes it from all other species." Kirk had material from Otago, collected by J. Buchanan and A. Hamilton.

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Gunnera ×mixta Kirk
Gunnera ×mixta Kirk
Gunnera microcarpa Kirk
Gunnera ×mixta Kirk
Gunnera ovata Petrie
Gunnera ×mixta Kirk

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Gunnera ×mixta Kirk
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Gunnera ×mixta Kirk
New Zealand
Westland Land District

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editorial
G. mixta is based on hybrids between G. monoica and G. prorepens; these are not infrequent where the 2 spp. co-occur and are intermediate in all main characters - the frs are orange when mature but often do not contain good seeds.

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Names_Plants
13 March 2002
27 June 2022
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