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Muehlenbeckia ephedroides Hook.f.

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Muehlenbeckia ephedroides Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 237 (1864)
Muehlenbeckia ephedroides Hook.f.
Allan, H.H. 1961: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. I. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledones. Government Printer, Wellington.

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New Zealand
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Hook.f.
Hook.f.
Hooker, J.D. 1864: Handbook of the New Zealand Flora: a systematic description of the native plants of New Zealand and the Chatham, Kermadec's, Lord Auckland's, Campbell's and Macquarie's Islands. Part I. Reeve, London.
1864
237
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Muehlenbeckia ephedroides Hook.f.
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Muehlenbeckia ephedroides

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Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Caryophyllales
Polygonaceae
Muehlenbeckia
ephedroides

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Allan, H.H. 1961: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. I. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledones. Government Printer, Wellington.

Muehlenbeckia ephedroides Hook.f.

Much-branched prostrate to sprawling shrub, with stems up to 1 m. or more long; final branchlets ± 1 mm. diam., flexuous, striate, finely pubescent. Lvs glab. or glabrate, narrow-linear, dark to greyish green, revolute, glabrate, ascending, 5-10-(25) mm. long, rather distant at constricted nodes, sts very few or 0; ochreae 1-1·5-(2) mm. long, truncate. Infl. of few-fld fascicles or short racemes; pedicels pale, bracted, very slender, ± 1 mm. long. Fls unisexual; sexes often mingled in same fascicle or raceme, occ. with perfect fls present; if predominately ♂ then raceme us. lax; if predominately ♀ then fascicle us. dense. Tepals 3-3·5 mm. long, united ± halfway, lobes narrow-triangular, white or greenish; stigmas fimbriate. Fr. somewhat shining, black, trigonous, c. 3 × 1·5 mm., ovoid in outline, tepals becoming white and succulent, or remaining dry on same plant.
Dawson, M.I. 2008: Index of chromosome numbers of indigenous New Zealand vascular plants.

Muehlenbeckia ephedroides Hook.f.

n = 10

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Muehlenbeckia ephedroides Hook.f.
Muehlenbeckia ephedroides Hook.f.
Allan, H.H. (1961)
Muehlenbeckia ephedroides Hook.f.
Muehlenbeckia ephedroides Hook.f.
Dawson, M.I. (2008)
Muehlenbeckia Meisn.
Muehlenbeckia ephedroides Hook.f.
Muehlenbeckia ephedroides Hook.f.
de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A. et al. (2004)
Muehlenbeckia ephedroides Hook.f.
Muehlenbeckia ephedroides Hook.f.
de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A. et al. (2009)
Muehlenbeckia ephedroides Hook.f.
Muehlenbeckia ephedroides Hook.f.
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R. et al. (2013)
Muehlenbeckia ephedroides Hook.f.
Muehlenbeckia ephedroides Hook.f.
Muehlenbeckia ephedroides Hook.f.
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R. et al. (2018)
Muehlenbeckia ephedroides Hook.f.
Polygonum ephedroides Hook.f.
Polygonum ephedroides Hook.f.
Allan, H.H. (1961)
Muehlenbeckia ephedroides Hook.f.

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Muehlenbeckia ephedroides Hook.f.
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0787806a-3627-4bf2-ba1c-bc8ce0a3e041
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1 January 2000
12 April 2007
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