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Epilobium pernitens Cockayne & Allan

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Epilobium pernitens Cockayne & Allan, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 56: 23 (1926)
Epilobium pernitens Cockayne & Allan

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New Zealand
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Cockayne & Allan
Cockayne & Allan
1926
23
ICN
Epilobium pernitens Cockayne & Allan
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Epilobium pernitens

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pernitens

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Epilobium pernitens Cockayne & Allan

Branching herb forming patches up to ± 10 cm. diam. Lvs us. crowded, on petioles up to ± 3 mm. long; lamina 3-5-(7) mm. long, glossy and ± purple above, concavo-convex, ± fleshy, glab.; margins entire or nearly so, ± recurved. Fls 10-16 mm. or slightly more diam.; calyx-lobes oblong-lanceolate, acute, ± 4 mm. long; petals ± 8 mm. long, emarginate, white, with ± 10 purple lines, broad-ovate. Capsules ± 30 mm. long, glab., slender; peduncles ± 50-60 mm. long, slender, brownish red. Seeds smooth or very minutely papillose.

Epilobium pernitens Cockayne & Allan

n = 18
2n = 36

Epilobium pernitens Cockayne & Allan

Compact, creeping herb forming dense patches up to 0.5 m across. Stems light brown, glabrous or very sparsely strigillose near margins of petioles, rooting at nodes. Lamina of lf with a conspicuous median depression, broadly elliptic to orbicular, 1.5-6 × 1.5-5 mm. Floral tube (1.4)-1.6-2.5 mm deep, glabrous. Petals white, (4)-5-10.7 × 3-7.5 mm. Capsule glabrous or nearly so, 1.5-3.8 cm long; fruiting pedicel (2)-3-6.8 cm long.

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Epilobium pernitens Cockayne & Allan
Epilobium pernitens Cockayne & Allan
Epilobium pernitens Cockayne & Allan
Epilobium pernitens Cockayne & Allan
Epilobium pernitens Cockayne & Allan
Epilobium pernitens Cockayne & Allan
Epilobium pernitens Cockayne & Allan
Epilobium pernitens Cockayne & Allan
Epilobium pernitens Cockayne & Allan
Epilobium pernitens Cockayne & Allan
Epilobium pernitens Cockayne & Allan
Epilobium pernitens Cockayne & Allan
Epilobium pernitens Cockayne & Allan
Epilobium pernitens Cockayne & Allan
Epilobium pernitens Cockayne & Allan

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Epilobium pernitens Cockayne & Allan
New Zealand
Epilobium pernitens Cockayne & Allan
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Epilobium pernitens Cockayne & Allan
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Epilobium pernitens Cockayne & Allan
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Epilobium pernitens Cockayne & Allan
New Zealand
Southland Land District
Epilobium pernitens Cockayne & Allan
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Epilobium pernitens Cockayne & Allan
New Zealand
Westland Land District

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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
15 May 2008
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