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Dahlia Cav.

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Dahlia Cav., Icones et Descriptiones Plantarum 56-57 (1791)
Dahlia Cav.

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Exotic
Wild
New Zealand
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Cav.
Cav.
1791
56-57
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Dahlia Cav.
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Dahlia

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Dahlia

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Dahlia Cav.

Herbaceous perennials often woody toward base, or scrambling epiphytes. Lvs opposite or whorled, simple and entire or lobed, to 1-3-pinnate. Capitula pedunculate, solitary. Involucral bracts in 2 rows; outer row foliaceous; inner row membranous. Receptacle flat or nearly so; scales present. Outer florets ♀ or sterile, ligulate, white, pale lavender to deep purple, or yellow to orange to deep scarlet. Inner florets ☿, tubular (or replaced by ligulate florets in many cvs). Achenes all similar, linear-oblong or spathulate, compressed but not winged, often constricted below a disc at apex; pappus usually 0, sometimes of 2 rudimentary awns.

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Exotic
Cultivated
New Zealand
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Dahlia Cav.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Dahlia Cav.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Dahlia Cav.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District

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1 January 2000
10 April 2007
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