Gunnera densiflora Hook.f.
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Gunnera densiflora Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 68 (1864)
Gunnera densiflora Hook.f.
Nomenclature
Hook.f.
Hook.f.
1864
68
ICN
Gunnera densiflora Hook.f.
species
Gunnera densiflora
Classification
Descriptions
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.
2n = 34
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.
Taxonomic concepts
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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Metadata
1d337b93-0228-4309-983e-ef87c76e8aca
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
25 October 2006