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Cerastium L.

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New Zealand
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L.
L.
1753
437
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Cerastium L.
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Cerastium

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Cerastium L.

Annual or perennial herbs, sometimes subshrubs. Hairs usually dense, glandular and/or eglandular, rarely 0. Lvs opposite, exstipulate. Infl. cymose, sometimes reduced to solitary fl.; bracts and sepals herbaceous or with narrow to wide scarious margins; epicalyx 0. Sepals 5, free. Petals 5, white, emarginate or 2-fid up to ⅓ way, rarely 0; coronal scales 0. Stamens usually 10, sometimes 8, 5 or fewer. Styles (3)-5-(6). Fr. a cylindric capsule, often curved, dehiscing by twice as many short apical teeth as the styles, sessile. Seeds many, obovoid, spherical or reniform, tuberculate, not winged.

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Cerastium L.
Argentina
Cerastium L.
Australia
Cerastium L.
Indonesia
Cerastium L.
Nepal
Cerastium L.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Cerastium L.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Cerastium L.
New Zealand
Southland Land District
Cerastium L.
Norway
Cerastium L.
United Kingdom

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1 January 2000
25 October 2006
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