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Sisyrinchium rosulatum E.P.Bicknell

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Sisyrinchium rosulatum E.P.Bicknell
Sisyrinchium rosulatum E.P.Bicknell

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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E.P.Bicknell
E.P.Bicknell
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Sisyrinchium rosulatum E.P.Bicknell
species
Sisyrinchium rosulatum

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Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Asparagales
Iridaceae
Sisyrinchium
rosulatum

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Healy, A. J.; Edgar, E. 1980: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. III. Adventive Cyperaceous, Petalous and Spathaceous Monocotyledons. Government Printer, Wellington.

Sisyrinchium "blue"

Tufted grass-like perennial. Stems simple or branched, compressed, narrowly winged, c. 1 mm diam., cauline leaf at each node. Leaves linear, ensiform, basal 2-3 mm wide, cauline narrower. Flowers ± 1 cm long, to 1.5 cm diam., in clusters of 1-3 within ± equal spathe-valves, blue internally with yellow band and throat, externally with dark indistinct purple stripes above, pubescent below. Capsule c. 3 × 3 mm, glabrous, red-brown. Seeds ± 1 mm long, black, ± 3-angled.

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Sisyrinchium "blue"
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
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Sisyrinchium "blue"
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
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Sisyrinchium bermudianum sensu New Zealand Botanists
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
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Sisyrinchium rosulatum E.P.Bicknell
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
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Sisyrinchium rosulatum E.P.Bicknell
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
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believed to be what was known in NZ as S. "blue" (pers. comm. PB Heenan 2014)
editorial
Although POWO synonymises Sisyrinchium rosulatum with S. micranthum, BiotaNZ is maintaining both as distinct taxa until compelling evidence emerges suggesting that these species are the same taxon (BiotaNZ editor 2024).

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Names_Plants
22 December 2014
19 December 2016
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