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Luzuriaga parviflora (Hook.f.) Kunth

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Luzuriaga parviflora (Hook.f.) Kunth (1850)
Luzuriaga parviflora (Hook.f.) Kunth

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Endemic
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New Zealand
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Kunth
Hook.f.
(Hook.f.) Kunth
1850
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Luzuriaga parviflora (Hook.f.) Kunth
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Luzuriaga parviflora

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parviflora

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Luzuriaga parviflora (Hook.f.) Kunth

Wiry, low-growing, semi-herbaceous perennial. Stem creeping at base, occ. 50 cm. long; internodes 2–4–(6) cm. long; nodes with scarious scales and short roots, giving off arcuate aerial branching twigs 4–25 cm. long; lower nodes of each branch with a brown scale in place of a lf, the lowest scale us. shortly tubular; new branches arising mostly in axils of these scales, rarely from axils of green lvs. Stem 4-angled, c. 1 mm. diam., the lvs alternate and distichous in zigzag pattern; each twig of limited growth with 4–12 green lvs, at intervals of 4–10–(20) mm., the uppermost internode so short that the last 2 lvs appear opp. Lvs 7–27 × 3–6–(10) mm., ± oblong, very shortly apiculate; margin entire; petiole very short and twisted so that the smooth, green, slightly keeled abaxial surface faces up to the light (resupinate); adaxial surface ± concave, the spaces between the main nerves notably pale and less smooth; 1–2 nerves on each side of midrib connected by several irregular, ± obvious transverse veins. Fls solitary and terminal between paired uppermost lvs; occ. 1 or 2 of next lower lvs also subtending fls. Fl.-bud, protected by c. 3 scale lvs, rests all winter before the pedicel elongates to 3–5 mm., and fl. develops and opens. Per. nodding; tepals c. 8–18 mm. long, opaque white; outer tepals c. 3 mm. wide with one mid-vein giving off side branches; inner tepals slightly wider, with band of 3 main veins, the mid-vein unbranched. Stamens much < tepals; filaments barely = ovary, little flattened, narrowed above; anther dorsifixed just below middle, versatile but mostly standing erect. Ovary 2.5 mm. long; style 2.5 mm.; ovules 2–3 per locule. Fr. c. 1 cm. diam., sub-globose, shortly apiculate, white, fleshy. Seeds c. 2.5 × 2 mm., pale, very hard. 2n = 20.

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Callixene melantha Colenso
Luzuriaga parviflora (Hook.f.) Kunth
Callixene parviflora Hook.f.
Luzuriaga parviflora (Hook.f.) Kunth
Enargea parviflora (Hook.f.) Skottsb.
Luzuriaga parviflora (Hook.f.) Kunth
Luzuriaga parviflora (Hook.f.) Kunth
Luzuriaga parviflora (Hook.f.) Kunth
Luzuriaga parviflora (Hook.f.) Kunth
Luzuriaga parviflora (Hook.f.) Kunth
Luzuriaga parviflora (Hook.f.) Kunth
Luzuriaga parviflora (Hook.f.) Kunth
Luzuriaga parviflora (Hook.f.) Kunth
Luzuriaga parviflora (Hook.f.) Kunth
Luzuriaga parviflora (Hook.f.) Kunth
Luzuriaga parviflora (Hook.f.) Kunth

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Luzuriaga parviflora (Hook.f.) Kunth
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0acdffae-9d44-41e2-91b2-7d466f6f67df
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
16 December 2004
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