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Epacris alpina Hook.f.

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Epacris alpina Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part II, 166 (1854)
Epacris alpina 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. 1854–1855: The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H.M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror, in the years 1839–1843, under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross. II. Flora Novae-Zelandiae. Part II. Flowerless plants. Lovell Reeve, London.
1854
166
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Epacris alpina Hook.f.
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Epacris alpina

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Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Ericales
Ericaceae
Epacris
alpina

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

Epacris alpina Hook.f.

Erect or spreading slender shrub up to ± 1 m. tall, often decumbent at base; branches slender, branchlets puberulous towards tips. Lvs close-set, becoming ± paten, coriac., glab., on very short subappressed petioles widening to base, concavo-convex, keeled on back; 3-5 × 1·5-2mm., ovate-oblong to elliptic, obtuse to subactue; midrib stout, veins obscure. Fls solitary, axillary, on short peduncles towards tip of branchlets. Bracts 5-6, broad-ovate, small, increasing upwards to c. 2 mm. long. Fls up to c. 7 mm. long; calyx-lobes obtuse, ciliolate, 2-3 mm. long; corolla white, tube short, lobes spreading, obtuse, ovate-triangular. Stigma capitate, on stout style. Capsule ± 1·5 mm. long, subglobose, 5-lobed; locules 5.
Dawson, M.I. 2008: Index of chromosome numbers of indigenous New Zealand vascular plants.

Epacris alpina Hook.f.

n = 13
n = 13
2n = 26
Webb, C.J.; Sykes, W.R.; Garnock-Jones, P.J. 1988: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. IV. Naturalised Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms, Dicotyledons. Botany Division DSIR, Christchurch.

Epacris alpina Hook.f.

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Epacris affinis Colenso
Epacris affinis Colenso
Allan, H.H. (1961)
Epacris alpina Hook.f.
Epacris alpina Hook.f.
Epacris alpina Hook.f.
Allan, H.H. (1961)
Epacris alpina Hook.f.
Epacris alpina Hook.f.
Dawson, M.I. (2008)
Epacris Cav.
Epacris alpina Hook.f.
Epacris alpina Hook.f.
Dawson, M.I. (2008)
Epacris Cav.
Epacris alpina Hook.f.
Epacris alpina Hook.f.
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R. et al. (2013)
Epacris alpina Hook.f.
Epacris alpina Hook.f.
Epacris alpina Hook.f.
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R. et al. (2018)
Epacris alpina Hook.f.
Epacris alpina Hook.f.
Epacris alpina Hook.f.
Webb, C.J.; Sykes, W.R.; Garnock-Jones, P.J. (1988)

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Epacris alpina Hook.f.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
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Epacris alpina Hook.f.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
7 Link to an external page
Epacris alpina Hook.f.
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
1 Link to an external page
Epacris alpina Hook.f.
New Zealand
Southland Land District
1 Link to an external page
Epacris alpina Hook.f.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
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1a7d9434-9415-48a2-91df-4358570f631c
scientific name
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1 January 2000
9 June 2004
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