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Montia calycina (Colenso) Pax & K.Hoffm.

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Montia calycina (Colenso) Pax & K.Hoffm., Nat. Pflanzenfam., ed. 2, 259 (1934)
Montia calycina (Colenso) Pax & K.Hoffm.

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New Zealand
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(Colenso) Pax & K.Hoffm.
Colenso
Pax & K.Hoffm.
1934
259
ICN
species
Montia calycina

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calycina

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Herb, up to 50 cm diam., forming loose or compact mats. Leaves up to 50 × 2 mm, narrowly lanceolate to ± linear; lamina narrowly elliptic to narrowly lanceolate; adaxial and abaxial surfaces green, green-brown, to brown, usually glossy; adaxial surface convex; abaxial surface ± flat; apex obtuse; base attenuate; petiole indistinct and grading into lamina; old leaves yellow to orangeyellow. Involucral leaves 1.2–2.2 × 2.6–3.0 mm, redbrown, red-green, to brown-green; lateral fold present; apex subacute. Flowers 8.0–11.0 mm diam. Tepals 4.5–5.5 × 2.5–2.7 mm, broadly elliptic to obovate, white at maturity—in bud sometimes flushed pink, not overlapping; apex obtuse, not notched; claw weakly differentiated. Nectary orange-brown. Filaments 3.2–3.6 mm long, >½ tepal length, white but rarely flushed pink. Anthers 0.7- 0.8 × 0.3-0.4 mm, pink to pink-red. Ovary 0.8-2.1 × 0.8-1.7 mm, obovoid, green-brown to olive-green; sutures not prominent. Style 2.0-2.3 mm long; slightly spreading at base, white with base flushed green. Stigmatic branches 0.9-1.5 mm long, white, straight prior to spreading. Capsule 1.8-2.1 × 1.7- 2.0 mm. Seeds 1.2-1.8 × 1.1-1.6 mm, slightly to moderately rugose, dark brown to black-brown. FL Dec-Feb; FT Jan-Mar .

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Claytonia australasica var. biflora Buchanan
Montia calycina (Colenso) Pax & K.Hoffm.
Claytonia calycina Colenso
Montia calycina (Colenso) Pax & K.Hoffm.
Montia calycina (Colenso) Pax & K.Hoffm.
Montia calycina (Colenso) Pax & K.Hoffm.
Montia calycina (Colenso) Pax & K.Hoffm.
Montia calycina (Colenso) Pax & K.Hoffm.
Montia calycina (Colenso) Pax & K.Hoffm.
Montia calycina (Colenso) Pax & K.Hoffm.
Montia calycina (Colenso) Pax & K.Hoffm.
Montia calycina (Colenso) Pax & K.Hoffm.
Montia calycina (Colenso) Pax & K.Hoffm.
Montia calycina (Colenso) Pax & K.Hoffm.
Montia calycina (Colenso) Pax & K.Hoffm.
Neopaxia calycina (Colenso) Heenan
Montia calycina (Colenso) Pax & K.Hoffm.

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Montia calycina (Colenso) Pax & K.Hoffm.
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Montia calycina (Colenso) Pax & K.Hoffm.
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Volcanic Plateau
Montia calycina (Colenso) Pax & K.Hoffm.
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Western

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13 March 2002
4 October 2011
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