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Epilobium nummulariifolium R.Cunn.

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Epilobium nummulariifolium R.Cunn. in Cunningham, Ann. Nat. Hist. 3: 31 (1839)
Epilobium nummulariifolium R.Cunn.
Raven, P.H.; Raven, T. E. 1976: The Genus Epilobium (Onagraceae) in Australasia: a Systematic and Evolutionary Study. New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Bulletin 216: 1–321.

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New Zealand
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R.Cunn.
R.Cunn.
Cunningham, A. 1839: Florae insularum Novae Zelandiae precursor; or a specimen of the botany of the islands of New Zealand. Annals of Natural History 3: 29–34.
1839
31
nummularifolium
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Epilobium nummulariifolium R.Cunn.
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Epilobium nummulariifolium
Original material (according to the protologue): "New Zealand (Northern Island). – 1769, Sir Jos. Banks. Shores of the Keri Keri river, and in dry as well as in boggy grounds. – 1834, Rich. Cunningham". Type (fide Raven, Raven, 1976: 279): "Dry as well as boggy grounds, shores of the Kerikeri River, Bay of Islands, North Auckland, New Zealand, 1834, Richard Cunningham 535 (K. Isotypes, BM, G, WELT)". Allan (1961: 259) partially typified the name thus: "Shores of the Kerikeri river, and in dry as well as in boggy grounds. Type: K, R. Cunningham, 1834".

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Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Myrtales
Onagraceae
Epilobium
nummulariifolium

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Allan, H.H. 1961: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. I. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledones. Government Printer, Wellington.

Epilobium nummulariifolium R.Cunn.

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Dawson, M.I. 2008: Index of chromosome numbers of indigenous New Zealand vascular plants.

Epilobium nummulariifolium R.Cunn.

n = 18
n = 18
2n = 36
Webb, C.J.; Sykes, W.R.; Garnock-Jones, P.J. 1988: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. IV. Naturalised Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms, Dicotyledons. Botany Division DSIR, Christchurch.

Epilobium nummulariifolium R.Cunn.

Loosely matted, creeping, stem-rooting herb forming patches up to 1 m across. Stems a distinctive pale purplish blue, with strigillose hairs running down the lines decurrent from petiole margins. Lamina of lf broadly ovate to suborbicular, 3-13 × 3-11 mm. Floral tube 0.4-1.1 mm deep, sparsely strigillose outside. Petals white, 1.9-3.4 × 1.7-2.1 mm. Capsule densely grey-strigillose, (1)-1.5-4 cm long; fruiting pedicel 2.3-12.5 cm long.

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Epilobium caespitosum sensu Allan
Epilobium caespitosum sensu Allan
Raven, P.H.; Raven, T. E. (1976)
Epilobium nummulariifolium R.Cunn.
Epilobium nummulariifolium R.Cunn.
Epilobium nummulariifolium A.Cunn.
Allan, H.H. (1961)
Epilobium nummulariifolium R.Cunn.
Epilobium nummulariifolium A.Cunn.
Dawson, M.I. (2008)
Epilobium L.
Epilobium nummulariifolium R.Cunn.
Epilobium nummulariifolium A.Cunn.
Dawson, M.I. (2008)
Epilobium L.
Epilobium nummulariifolium R.Cunn.
Epilobium nummulariifolium A.Cunn.
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R. et al. (2013)
Epilobium nummulariifolium R.Cunn.
Epilobium nummulariifolium R.Cunn.
Epilobium nummulariifolium A.Cunn.
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R. et al. (2018)
Epilobium nummulariifolium R.Cunn.
Epilobium nummulariifolium R.Cunn.
Epilobium nummulariifolium A.Cunn.
Raven, P.H.; Raven, T. E. (1976)
Epilobium nummulariifolium R.Cunn.
Epilobium nummulariifolium R.Cunn.
Epilobium nummulariifolium A.Cunn.
Webb, C.J.; Sykes, W.R.; Garnock-Jones, P.J. (1988)

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Epilobium nummulariifolium R.Cunn.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
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Epilobium nummulariifolium R.Cunn.
New Zealand
Gisborne Land District
1 Link to an external page
Epilobium nummulariifolium R.Cunn.
New Zealand
Hawke's Bay Land District
1 Link to an external page
Epilobium nummulariifolium R.Cunn.
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
2 Link to an external page
Epilobium nummulariifolium R.Cunn.
New Zealand
Otago Land District
1 Link to an external page
Epilobium nummulariifolium R.Cunn.
New Zealand
Southland Land District
1 Link to an external page
Epilobium nummulariifolium R.Cunn.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
20 Link to an external page
Epilobium nummulariifolium R.Cunn.
New Zealand
Westland Land District
1 Link to an external page

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typification
Original material (according to the protologue): "New Zealand (Northern Island). – 1769, Sir Jos. Banks. Shores of the Keri Keri river, and in dry as well as in boggy grounds. – 1834, Rich. Cunningham". Type (fide Raven, Raven, 1976: 279): "Dry as well as boggy grounds, shores of the Kerikeri River, Bay of Islands, North Auckland, New Zealand, 1834, Richard Cunningham 535 (K. Isotypes, BM, G, WELT)". Allan (1961: 259) partially typified the name thus: "Shores of the Kerikeri river, and in dry as well as in boggy grounds. Type: K, R. Cunningham, 1834".
Mosyakin, S.L.; de Lange, P.J.; Antonenko, S.I.; Klimovych, N.B. 2020: Types and other historical specimens of Allan and Richard Cunningham's taxa of Epilobium and Fuchsia (Onagraceae) from New Zealand in the Turczaninow Herbarium at the National Herbarium of Ukraine (KW). Ukrainian Botanical Journal 77(4): 249–269.

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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
7 January 2021
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