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Geum pusillum Petrie

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Threat status: Naturally uncommon

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Geum pusillum Petrie, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 28: 538 (1895 [1896])
Geum pusillum Petrie
Molloy, B.P.J.; Webb, C. J. 1994: Taxonomy and typification of New Zealand Geum (Rosaceae). New Zealand Journal of Botany 32(4): 423–428.

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Endemic
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New Zealand
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Petrie
Petrie
Petrie, D. 1896 ("1895"): Descriptions of Three New Native Plants. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 28: 538–539.
1895
1896
538
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Geum pusillum Petrie
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Geum pusillum

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Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Rosales
Rosaceae
Geum
pusillum

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

Geum pusillum Petrie

Up to 1 dm. tall, with slender stock. Lvs radical, up to 2.5 cm. long, sparsely strigose, pinnate; terminal lflt c. 7 mm. long, suborbicular, crenate; lateral lflts c. 5 pairs, small. Scapes us. c. 5 cm. tall, with one or more minute bracts, or nude, pubescent. Fls solitary, minute; calyx-lobes ovate, bractlets minute; petals 5-6, white, about oblong. Receptacle elongate, villous; achenes glab., minute, obliquely obovoid-oblong; style minute, recurved.
Dawson, M.I. 2008: Index of chromosome numbers of indigenous New Zealand vascular plants.

Geum pusillum Petrie

2n = 70
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.

Geum pusillum Petrie

Low-growing herb up to 3-(10) cm high at flowering, arising from slender stock. Basal lvs up to 25-(45) mm long, sparsely to moderately white-pilose, imparipinnate; lateral leaflets in up to 5-(7) pairs, small; terminal leaflet 3-10 mm long, crenate-dentate and sometimes obscurely 3-5-lobed; cauline lvs 1-2, reduced to minute bracts. Peduncle short. Fls mostly solitary, very rarely 2 per infl. Petals c. 1.5 mm long, white. Achenes glabrous.

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Geum pusillum Petrie
Geum pusillum Petrie
Allan, H.H. (1961)
Geum pusillum Petrie
Geum pusillum Petrie
Dawson, M.I. (2008)
Geum L.
Geum pusillum Petrie
Geum pusillum Petrie
de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A. et al. (2004)
Geum pusillum Petrie
Geum pusillum Petrie
de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A. et al. (2009)
Geum pusillum Petrie
Geum pusillum Petrie
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R. et al. (2013)
Geum pusillum Petrie
Geum pusillum Petrie
Geum pusillum Petrie
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R. et al. (2018)
Geum pusillum Petrie
Geum pusillum Petrie
Geum pusillum Petrie
Molloy, B.P.J.; Webb, C. J. (1994)
Geum pusillum Petrie
Geum pusillum Petrie
Geum pusillum Petrie
Webb, C.J.; Sykes, W.R.; Garnock-Jones, P.J. (1988)

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Geum pusillum Petrie
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
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Geum pusillum Petrie
New Zealand
Otago Land District
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Geum pusillum Petrie
New Zealand
Southland Land District
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1aa8dfeb-9a37-43e2-a582-1ee192efbd31
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
7 July 2006
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