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Echium candicans L.f.

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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L.f.
L.f.
1782
131
ICN
Echium candicans L.f.
species
Echium candicans

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candicans

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Echium candicans L.f.

Branched shrub to c. 2.5 m high. Lvs on vegetative shoots usually to 20 × 5.5 cm, densely clothed in ± appressed, hirsute or hispid hairs and often appearing grey or silvery; hairs on upper surface often with bulbous bases; lamina decurrent on petiole and slightly amplexicaul; apex acuminate or nearly so; lvs on flowering shoots smaller and sessile. Infl. a dense columnar panicle of cymes, 20-40 cm high, with linear-lanceolate bracts subequal to cymes. Calyx 3-5 mm long, lanceolate to ovate, < corolla tube. Corolla 7-12 mm long, pale blue to deep blue and purple; upper lobes slightly larger. Stamens long-exserted; filaments filiform, usually pink or red. Nutlets 2-3 mm long.

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Exotic
Cultivated
New Zealand
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Subtropicals, Vol. 5, No. 3, p. 30,31

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Echium candicans L.f.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Echium candicans L.f.
New Zealand
Hawke's Bay Land District
Echium candicans L.f.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Echium candicans L.f.
New Zealand
Taranaki Land District
Echium candicans L.f.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District

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editorial
This has been called Echium fastuosum in New Zealand. E. fastuosumJ.Jacq. is a synonym of Echium strictum, Suppl. Pl.: 130 (1782)

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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
13 April 2015
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