Geum pusillum Petrie

Details

Name scientific

Geum pusillum Petrie, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 28: 538 (1895 [1896])

Preferred name

Geum pusillum Petrie

Taxonomy reference

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.

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Authors

Petrie

Original authors

Petrie

Publication place

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

Year published

1895

Year on publication

1896

Publication page

538

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Geum pusillum Petrie

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Geum pusillum

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Rosales

Family

Rosaceae

Genus

Geum

Species

pusillum

Descriptions

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

Geum pusillum Petrie

Description

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

Description

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

Description

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.

Taxonomic concepts

Name

Cited name

Reference

Preferred name

Parent name

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

de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R. et al. (2018)

Geum pusillum Petrie

Geum pusillum Petrie

Molloy, B.P.J.; Webb, C. J. (1994)

Geum pusillum Petrie

Geum pusillum Petrie

Webb, C.J.; Sykes, W.R.; Garnock-Jones, P.J. (1988)

Collections

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Country

Geographic region

Indicative databased records

Geum pusillum Petrie

[Not available]

Metadata

Record id

1aa8dfeb-9a37-43e2-a582-1ee192efbd31

Record class

scientific name

Record source

Names_Plants

Date added

1 January 2000

Date last updated

7 July 2006

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