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Moenchia Ehrh.

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Moenchia Ehrh. (1788)
Moenchia Ehrh.

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

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Ehrh.
Ehrh.
1788
203
ICN
Moenchia Ehrh.
genus
Moenchia

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Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Caryophyllales
Caryophyllaceae
Moenchia

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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.

Moenchia Ehrh.

Glabrous annual rosette herbs. Lvs opposite, exstipulate, linear to oblong-lanceolate. Infl. a few-flowered long-pedicellate cyme, or fls solitary; bracts leaflike; epicalyx 0. Sepals 4-5, free. Petals 4-5, white, entire or emarginate; coronal scales 0. Stamens 4-10. Styles (3)-4-(5). Fr. a narrow-ovoid or cylindric capsule, dehiscing by twice as many teeth as the styles; carpophore 0. Seeds many, reniform, papillate, not winged.

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Moenchia Ehrh.
Moenchia
Mabberley, D.J. (2008)
Moenchia Ehrh.
Caryophyllaceae
Moenchia Ehrh.
Moenchia Ehrh.
Webb, C.J.; Sykes, W.R.; Garnock-Jones, P.J. (1988)

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1 January 2000
18 February 2014
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