Collomia biflora (Ruiz & Pav.) Brand
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Collomia biflora (Ruiz & Pav.) Brand
Collomia biflora (Ruiz & Pav.) Brand
Biostatus
Exotic
Recorded in error
New Zealand
Political Region
C. biflora is erroneously reported from NZ. NZ plants are correctly referred to C. grandiflora.C. biflora is a South American species. The statement: "the corolla tube several times > the calyx" in Webb et al. 1988 is consistent for C. grandiflora.
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Annual, branched or not, to c. 50 cm tall; stems often purplish, with short downward curled, white hairs, these dense towards the apex. Lvs apetiolate, 300-100 × 3-12 mm, usually entire, occasionally remotely toothed, linear or linear-lanceolate, glandular-hairy and viscid, later glabrous except for ciliolate margins. Infl. terminal, capitate, with subsessile fls, also with solitary axillary fls beneath on pedicels to c. 3 cm long. Bracts lanceolate to ovate, acuminate, often > infl., with very viscid glandular hairs. Calyx 9-12 mm long, lobed to c. 1/2 way, glandular-hairy and viscid; tube membranous; lobes lanceolate or narrow-lanceolate, almost = tube. Corolla c. 2-2.5 cm long, mostly creamy yellow at first, soon becoming pale salmon pink, rarely becoming mauve-pink; tube > calyx; lobes c. 8 mm long, elliptic, ± acute. Stamens exserted from tube; anthers blue. Capsule c. 5 mm long. Seed 2.5-3.5 mm long, obovoid, finely pitted, glabrous or puberulent.
Taxonomic concepts
Collomia biflora (Ruiz & Pav.) Brand
Collomia biflora (Ruiz & Pav.) Brand
Collomia biflora (Ruiz & Pav.) Brand
Collomia biflora (Ruiz & Pav.) Brand
Collomia biflora (Ruiz & Pav.) Brand
Collomia biflora (Ruiz & Pav.) Brand
Collomia cavanillesii Hook. & Arn.
Collomia cavanillesii Hook. & Arn.
Collomia biflora (Ruiz & Pav.) Brand
Collomia cavanillesii Hook. & Arn.
Collomia coccinea Lehm. ex Benth.
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editorial
N.Z. plants of Collomia cavanillesii have sometimes been misidentified as C. biflora.
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2ad84589-009c-446c-889f-17281ae952d2
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Names_Plants
13 March 2002
10 April 2022