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Pastinaca L.

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Pastinaca L., Sp. Pl. 262 (1753)
Pastinaca L.

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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L.
L.
1753
262
ICN
Pastinaca L.
genus
Pastinaca

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Pastinaca

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Pastinaca L.

Glabrous or hairy, biennial or perennial herbs, with stout or thin taproots. Lvs usually 1-2-pinnate, rarely simple and serrate; segments usually broad. Umbels compound, pedunculate; bracts and bracteoles 0, or few, entire and often caducous. Petals yellow or whitish red, regular, with apex entire and inflexed; calyx teeth 0. Fr. ellipsoid to globose, strongly flattened dorsally, not beaked, spineless but sometimes hispid; commissure broad; ribs 5 per mericarp, the dorsal slender, the lateral with a thin wing; lateral wings of opposing mericarps appressed; vittae broad, 1-(2) in furrows; dorsal vittae almost as long as fr.

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Pastinaca L.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Pastinaca L.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District

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634a18fc-a52c-4cf8-bc01-fe8d98af3aba
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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
26 August 2008
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