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Epilobium wilsonii Cheeseman

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Epilobium wilsonii Cheeseman in Cheeseman, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 54: 569 (1923)
Epilobium wilsonii Cheeseman

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Endemic
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New Zealand
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Cheeseman
Cheeseman
1923
569
ICN
Epilobium wilsonii Cheeseman
species
Epilobium wilsonii

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wilsonii

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Basal parts more distinctly woody, plant very robust; lamina ± 20 × 12 mm.; fls 20-30 mm. diam.; capsules dark purple ± 3-4 cm. long; peduncles ± 4 mm. long.

Epilobium wilsonii Cheeseman

Stems several from stock, slender, dark purple, simple or sparingly branched, decumbent at base, then sprawling, ascending at tips, up to 30 cm. or more long; bifariously pubescent, sts evenly so. Lvs opp., floral alt., on slender petioles up to 3 mm. long. Lamina oblong-lanceolate to oblong-ovate to elliptic, 15-20-(30) × 7-10 mm., membr., glab. or ± puberulous; margins distinctly to rather obscurely, remotely denticulate. Fls (6)-15-(20) mm. diam.; calyx ± 10 mm. long, cleft to halfway or more, linear-lanceolate to narrow-ovate, acute to acuminate; pink in bud becoming white, ± 15 mm. long, broad-obcordate. Capsules 20-30 mm. long or more; sparingly, evenly pubescent; peduncles very slender, 10-20 mm. long, sparsely pubescent. Seeds ridged, papillose.
"Leaves and floral characters exactly as the type, stems and leaves pale green in colour, nowhere dark red or reddish. Common on moist limestone in the gorge of the Ure River, Marlborough. The variety seeds freely in cultivation, and the seedlings are all as the parent plant."

Epilobium wilsonii Cheeseman

Tufted herb. Stems 6-30 cm tall, usually purplish, rarely green, wiry, with broad lines of eglandular appressed or erect hairs running down below the petioles, hairy all round above. Lamina of lf ovate to broadly ovate, 10-40 × 6-20 mm. Floral tube 1.8-2.5 mm deep, ± glandular-hairy. Petals white or pink, 10-18 × 6-15 mm. Capsule usually with sparse glandular or erect eglandular hairs, rarely glabrous, 1.9-5.5 cm long; fruiting pedicel 0.7-1.5 cm long.

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Epilobium chlorifolium var. kaikourense Cockayne
Epilobium wilsonii Cheeseman
Epilobium wilsonii Cheeseman
Epilobium wilsonii Cheeseman
Epilobium wilsonii Cheeseman
Epilobium wilsonii Cheeseman
Epilobium wilsonii Cheeseman
Epilobium wilsonii Cheeseman
Epilobium wilsonii Cheeseman
Epilobium wilsonii Cheeseman
Epilobium wilsonii Cheeseman
Epilobium wilsonii Cheeseman
Epilobium wilsonii Cheeseman
Epilobium wilsonii Cheeseman
Epilobium wilsonii Cheeseman
Epilobium wilsonii Cheeseman
Epilobium wilsonii Cheeseman
Epilobium wilsonii Cheeseman
Epilobium wilsonii Cheeseman
Epilobium wilsonii Cheeseman
Epilobium wilsonii Cheeseman
Epilobium wilsonii Cheeseman
Epilobium wilsonii var. pallidum G.Simpson & J.S.Thomson
Epilobium wilsonii var. pallidum G.Simpson & J.S.Thomson
Epilobium wilsonii Cheeseman

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Epilobium wilsonii Cheeseman
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Epilobium wilsonii Cheeseman
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
Epilobium wilsonii Cheeseman
New Zealand
Wellington Land District

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876252bb-54c7-4ed1-8be0-3652de8ddda7
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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
13 April 2012
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