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Sisyrinchium L.

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Sisyrinchium L., Sp. Pl. 954 (1753)
Sisyrinchium L.

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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L.
L.
1753
954
ICN
Sisyrinchium L.
genus
Sisyrinchium

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Sisyrinchium

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Sisyrinchium L.

Tufted or shortly rhizomatous, grass-like, annual or perennial. Stems usually compressed, ± winged. Leaves linear, distichous, equitant, basal and cauline. Inflorescence of several subumbellate clusters of 2-many pedicellate flowers emerging successively from a usually 2-valved spathe. Flowers small, cream, blue or violet, rarely white, delicate and fugacious, closing at night, usually cup-shaped below, spreading above; lobes free almost to base, ± equal, often apiculate, outer wider than inner. Stamens inserted at base of perianth, filaments usually united in a cylindrical tube. Style-branches entire. Capsules globose, exserted from spathe-values on elongate filiform pedicels. Seeds numerous, globose, black, ± pitted. Spp. c. 100, mostly of N. and S. America, 1 from Hawaii, 1 from Ireland. Adventive spp. 4.

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Sisyrinchium L.
Sisyrinchium L.
Sisyrinchium L.
Sisyrinchium
Sisyrinchium L.

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Sisyrinchium L.
Australia
Sisyrinchium L.
Chile
Sisyrinchium L.
New Zealand
Sisyrinchium L.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Sisyrinchium L.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Sisyrinchium L.
New Zealand
Westland Land District

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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
15 September 2008
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