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Epilobium nerteroides A.Cunn.

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Epilobium nerteroides A.Cunn., Ann. Nat. Hist. 3: 32 (1839)
Epilobium nerteroides A.Cunn.

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Endemic
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New Zealand
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A.Cunn.
A.Cunn.
1839
32
nerterioides
ICN
Epilobium nerteroides A.Cunn.
species
Epilobium nerteroides
Original material (according to the protologue): "New Zealand (Northern Island). Bogs, near the Kana-Kana river, bay of Islands. – 1826, A. Cunningham". Type: Allan (1961: 261) stated the type locality as "Bogs near the Kana Kana [Kawakawa – P.dL.] river, Bay of Islands. Type: BM. There are 3 imperfect specimens at K that very doubtfully belong here". Raven and Raven (1976: 274) typified the name using a K specimen: "Bogs near the Kana Kana [Kawakawa] River, Bay of Islands, North Auckland, New Zealand, 1826, Allan Cunningham 541 (K)".

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nerteroides

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Stems slender, pale green; lamina oblong to ovate-oblong to suborbicular, remotely and rather obscurely denticulate, up to ± 7 mm. diam. Cockayne says: "pedunculis brevibus 5-11 mm. longis; capsulis circ 2·8 cm. longis; viridibus secundum suturam brunneo tinctis."

Epilobium nerteroides A.Cunn.

2n = 36
n = 18
n = 18
2n = 36

Epilobium nerteroides A.Cunn.

Loosely matted, creeping, stem-rooting herb forming patches up to 0.4 m across, glabrous or rarely the stems with a very few strigillose hairs in lines decurrent from margins of petioles. Lamina of lf broadly elliptic to ovate, (3)-4-11 × (2)-3-8 mm. Floral tube 0.5-1.1 mm deep, sparsely strigillose outside. Petals usually white, rarely pale pink, 2.5-5.3 × 1.5-4 mm. Capsule glabrous, (1.5)-2-4.2 cm long; fruiting pedicel (2.7)-3.5-9-(15) cm long.

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Epilobium nerteroides A.Cunn.
Epilobium nerteroides A.Cunn.
Epilobium nerteroides A.Cunn.
Epilobium nerteroides A.Cunn.
Epilobium nerteroides A.Cunn.
Epilobium nerteroides A.Cunn.
Epilobium nerteroides A.Cunn.
Epilobium nerteroides A.Cunn.
Epilobium nerteroides A.Cunn.
Epilobium nerteroides A.Cunn.
Epilobium nerteroides A.Cunn.
Epilobium nerteroides A.Cunn.
Epilobium nerteroides A.Cunn.
Epilobium nerteroides A.Cunn.
Epilobium nerteroides A.Cunn.
Epilobium nerteroides A.Cunn.
Epilobium nerteroides A.Cunn.
Epilobium nerteroides A.Cunn.
Epilobium nummulariifolium var. ovatum Kirk
Epilobium nerteroides A.Cunn.
Epilobium pedunculare sensu Hausskn.
Epilobium nerteroides A.Cunn.
Epilobium pedunculare var. aprica Hausskn.
Epilobium nerteroides A.Cunn.
Epilobium pedunculare var. viride Cockayne
Epilobium nerteroides A.Cunn.

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Epilobium nerteroides A.Cunn.
New Zealand
Epilobium nerteroides A.Cunn.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Epilobium nerteroides A.Cunn.
New Zealand
Hawke's Bay Land District
Epilobium nerteroides A.Cunn.
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
Epilobium nerteroides A.Cunn.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Epilobium nerteroides A.Cunn.
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Epilobium nerteroides A.Cunn.
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Epilobium nerteroides A.Cunn.
New Zealand
Southland Land District
Epilobium nerteroides A.Cunn.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Epilobium nerteroides A.Cunn.
New Zealand
Westland Land District
Epilobium nerteroides A.Cunn.
United Kingdom

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typification
Original material (according to the protologue): "New Zealand (Northern Island). Bogs, near the Kana-Kana river, bay of Islands. – 1826, A. Cunningham". Type: Allan (1961: 261) stated the type locality as "Bogs near the Kana Kana [Kawakawa – P.dL.] river, Bay of Islands. Type: BM. There are 3 imperfect specimens at K that very doubtfully belong here". Raven and Raven (1976: 274) typified the name using a K specimen: "Bogs near the Kana Kana [Kawakawa] River, Bay of Islands, North Auckland, New Zealand, 1826, Allan Cunningham 541 (K)".

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174525c0-e92d-4332-90bc-ae0d32ebfb58
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
15 May 2008
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