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Acaena caesiiglauca (Bitter) Bergmans

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Acaena caesiiglauca (Bitter) Bergmans (1939)
Acaena caesiiglauca (Bitter) Bergmans

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New Zealand
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(Bitter) Bergmans
Bitter
Bergmans
1939
caesiiglauca is the correct version. ICBN Recommendation 60G.1(a) applies. The reason for the double –ii– is that this is a compound of the two words caesia and glauca; when you remove the ending from the first word and then add a connecting vowel because of the consonant beginning the second word, you get: caesi– plus –i– plus –glauca = caesiiglauca.
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Acaena caesiiglauca

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caesiiglauca

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Acaena caesiiglauca (Bitter) Bergmans

Main stems rather stout, procumbent, rooting; branches densely pilose, ascending, c. 5 cm. long. Lvs 3·5-5 cm. long (on main stems up to 10 cm. long), 7-9-foliolate. Stipules lanceolate, simple or 1-2-fid. Lflts grey-glaucous on both surfaces, rather sparingly hairy above, clothed in silky hairs below; upper lflts up to 12 mm. long, dentate, subsessile; terminal lflt on petiolule up to 5 mm. long. Scapes densely pilose, up to 15 cm. long, with one or more pairs of bracts, sts with solitary fls in axils. Heads up to 2 cm. diam. including spines. Cupules obconic, 4-angled, densely pilose. Spines up to 5 mm. long, clear brown, sts with small accessory spines. Sepals lanceolate, densely hairy below. Stamens 2, rarely 3; anthers white. Stigma white, plumose.

Acaena caesiiglauca (Bitter) Bergmans

Stoloniferous perennial; prostrate stems 1-2 mm diam., < 30 cm long; erect stems 1-2 mm diam., < 4 cm long. Lvs 2-10 cm long; stipules entire or 2-fid; leaflets 7-11, broadly obovate, 5-12 × 3-8 mm, 7-10-toothed, with lower ⅓ of margin entire, glaucous and hairy on both surfaces, rugose on upper surface; teeth penicillate, often red. Scape (7)-20 cm long, pilose; capitulum c. 10 mm diam. at flowering, < 2 cm diam. (including spines) at fruiting; florets c. 50-70; sepals 4; stamens 2; anthers white; style 1, white; achene 1. Fr. obconic, c. 4 × 2 mm, densely hairy; spines 4, pale brown, < 7.5 mm long, barbed.

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Acaena caesiiglauca (Bitter) Bergmans
Acaena caesiglauca (Bitter) Bergmans
Acaena caesiiglauca (Bitter) Bergmans
Acaena caesiglauca (Bitter) Bergmans
Acaena caesiiglauca (Bitter) Bergmans
Acaena caesiiglauca (Bitter) Bergmans
Acaena caesiiglauca (Bitter) Bergmans
Acaena caesiiglauca (Bitter) Bergmans
Acaena caesiiglauca (Bitter) Bergmans
Acaena caesiiglauca (Bitter) Bergmans
Acaena caesiiglauca (Bitter) Bergmans
Acaena caesiglauca (Bitter) Bergmans
Acaena caesiglauca var. pilosa (Kirk) Allan
Acaena caesiiglauca (Bitter) Bergmans
Acaena sanguisorbae subsp. caesiglauca Bitter
Acaena caesiiglauca (Bitter) Bergmans
Acaena sanguisorbae var. pilosa Kirk
Acaena caesiiglauca (Bitter) Bergmans

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Acaena caesiiglauca (Bitter) Bergmans
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Acaena caesiiglauca (Bitter) Bergmans
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Acaena caesiiglauca (Bitter) Bergmans
New Zealand
Southland Land District
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District

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03604cea-7b8e-41b7-a582-38ebcb0c3544
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
14 August 2013
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