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Aciphylla simplex Petrie

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Aciphylla simplex Petrie, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 22: 440 (1889 [1890])
Aciphylla simplex Petrie

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Endemic
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New Zealand
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Petrie
Petrie
1889
1890
440
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Aciphylla simplex Petrie
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Aciphylla simplex

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simplex

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Aciphylla simplex Petrie

Stock us. multicipital, each branch bearing a dense rosette of lvs, the whole plant forming cushionlike masses up to 6 dm. diam. and 10 cm. tall. Lvs simple, sessile on submembr. sheaths up to ± 4 cm. × 10 mm. Lamina straight or curved, exstipulate, concavo-convex, 3-10 cm. long, tapering to blunt but mucronulate apex; hard, rigid. with thickened margins. Stems stout, grooved, up to c. 10 cm. × 5 mm.; infl. a ± globose panicle, with oblong-lanceolate, acute bracts up to 2.5 cm. long. Umbels few, densely fld, forming an infl. up to c. 5 cm. diam., on peduncles 10-25 mm. long. Umbellules globose, up to c. 15 mm. diam; rays very slender, short. Umbellules of female plants up to c. 3 cm. diam.

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Aciphylla simplex Petrie
Aciphylla simplex Petrie
Aciphylla simplex Petrie
Aciphylla simplex Petrie
Aciphylla simplex Petrie
Aciphylla simplex Petrie
Aciphylla simplex Petrie
Aciphylla simplex Petrie
Aciphylla simplex Petrie
Aciphylla simplex Petrie

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Aciphylla simplex Petrie
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Aciphylla simplex Petrie
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South Otago

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12ae2259-a5c0-45af-81d1-6724678eea18
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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
6 April 2004
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