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Azorella Lam.

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Indigenous, non-endemic
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New Zealand
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Lam.
Lam.
1783
344
ICN
Azorella Lam.
genus
Azorella

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Azorella

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Azorella Lam.

Umbels terminal, few- to many-fld, on very short peduncles. Involucral bracts us. free; calyx-teeth prominent, sts petal-like. Disk thick and fleshy. Mericarps subterete or very slightly dorsally compressed, 5-ribbed. Densely tufted herbs, often forming cushionlike masses. Lvs alt., closely imbricate, ± appressed, entire to dissected. A genus of some 70 spp., mainly of southern S. America; the N.Z. sp. widespread in Antarctica.
Monoec. or polygamous herbs; umbels axillary and terminal, compound, congested; bracts foliaceous, bractlets smaller. Hypanthium shallowly 3-5-grooved; calyx truncate; petals 5, stamens 5, disk annular; ovary 2-loculed, style-branches 2; fr. subglobose, not hollowed at apex; stylopodia prominent; seeds one per locule, ovoid. Lvs large. Endemic to Snares, Stewart Id, and adjacent islets.
Fls 5-merous in simple to irregularly compound bracted umbels. Calyx-teeth 5, prominent, persistent; petals imbricate; disk thick, flat. Fr. ± tetragonous; mericarps subterete to dorsally somewhat compressed; ribs 5, evenly placed, lateral not close to commissure. Glab. perennial herbs with creeping and rooting stolons. Lvs simple to 3-5- foliolate. Some 15 spp., mainly of N.Z., with 1 in Falkland Is, 1 in Patagonia, and 1 in Victoria. The N.Z. and Australian spp. lack a district carpophore. The treatment follows in large part that of Domin in Engl. Bot. Jb. 40, 1908, 573-585.
Polygamodioec. herb. Umbels terminal and axillary, compound; bracts foliaceous, bractlets smaller. Fls jointed on top of pedicels. Hypanthium with 2-4 grooves; calyx obsolescent; petals 5, stamens 5, disk annular; ovary 4-3-loculed; style-branches 4-3, stylopodia ill-developed; fr. subglobose, hollowed at apex; seeds 1 per locule, ovoid. Large herb with stout rhizomes; lvs large, on fistular petioles. Endemic to Subantarctic Is.

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Azorella Lam.
Azorella Lam.
Azorella Lam.
Azorella Lam.
Azorella Lam.
Azorella Lam.
Azorella Lam.
Azorella Lam.

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Absent
New Zealand
Political Region
Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
NZ Botanical Region

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Azorella Lam.
Argentina
Azorella Lam.
Chile
Azorella Lam.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Azorella Lam.
New Zealand
Hawke's Bay Land District
Azorella Lam.
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Azorella Lam.
New Zealand
Southland Land District
Azorella Lam.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
New Zealand
Hawke's Bay Land District
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
New Zealand
Otago Land District
New Zealand
Southland Land District
New Zealand
Wellington Land District

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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
11 October 2017
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