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Gunnera densiflora Hook.f.

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Gunnera densiflora Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 68 (1864)
Gunnera densiflora Hook.f.

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Endemic
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New Zealand
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Hook.f.
Hook.f.
1864
68
ICN
Gunnera densiflora Hook.f.
species
Gunnera densiflora

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densiflora

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Gunnera densiflora Hook.f.

Stolons us. below surface, branched, up to ± 3 dm. long. Lvs. on slender, slightly concave petioles up to 7 cm. long, rather sparsely hairy. Lamina dark green, 12-35 × 15-35 mm., about broad-ovate to suborbicular, cuneate to truncate or subcordate at base, rounded at apex, sts obscurely 2-3-lobed, subcoriac.; margins rather coarsely dentateapiculate; indumentum sparse, mainly on veins, or absent. Staminate infl. up to 7 cm. long, ♂ with minute bracts, calyx-lobes minute. ♀ with slender styles up to 3 mm. long. Drupes obconic to pyriform, spreading, compacted into clusters ± 10 mm. diam., dark red, 2-3 mm. long.

Gunnera densiflora Hook.f.

Dioecious herb. Lvs 2-9 cm long; lamina broad-ovate to broad-elliptic, usually cordate at base, sometimes obtuse, not lobed or very shallowly lobed, coarsely dentate, subcoriaceous, glabrous or sparsely hairy. Infructescence exposed above lvs. Drupes usually clustered on stalk, short-pyriform to obconic, dark red; flesh closely attached to seed.

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Gunnera densiflora Hook.f.
Gunnera densiflora Hook.f.
Gunnera densiflora Hook.f.
Gunnera densiflora Hook.f.
Gunnera densiflora Hook.f.
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Gunnera densiflora Hook.f.
Gunnera densiflora Hook.f.
Gunnera densiflora Hook.f.
Gunnera densiflora Hook.f.
Gunnera densiflora Hook.f.
Gunnera densiflora Hook.f.
Gunnera densiflora Hook.f.
Gunnera densiflora Hook.f.
Gunnera densiflora Hook.f.
Gunnera densiflora Hook.f.

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Gunnera densiflora Hook.f.
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1d337b93-0228-4309-983e-ef87c76e8aca
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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
25 October 2006
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