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Cardamine depressa Hook.f.

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Cardamine depressa Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. I. (Fl. Antarct.) Part I, 6, t. 3 (1844)
Cardamine depressa Hook.f.

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Endemic
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New Zealand
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Hook.f.
Hook.f.
1844
6, t. 3
ICN
Cardamine depressa Hook.f.
species
Cardamine depressa
The specific epithet depressa (Latin: flattened) probably refers to the low and compact growth habit.
Lectotype (designated by Heenan 2017): Rendezvous Harbour, Lord Auckland’s group, November 1840, K!

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depressa

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Cardamine depressa Hook.f.

Glab. to glabrate herb up to 3 cm. or more tall; stock often branched above; lvs radical or crowded on arrested branches, somewhat fleshy, up to c. 5 cm. long; lamina up to 2 cm. long, obovate to obovate-spathulate, entire to irregularly pinnatifidly lobed, often sparsely ciliate, narrowed into petiole up to c. 3 cm. long. Fls solitary; pedicels spreading to suberect, rather stout, elongating in fr. to c. 3 cm. Sepals ovate-oblong to oblong, c. 1·5 mm. long, or sts almost = petals; petals narrow- spathulate, clawed, c. 3-4 mm. long. Siliques erect, up to 2.5 cm. × 1·5 mm.; style c. 0·5 mm. long. Seeds c. 20.

Cardamine depressa Hook.f.

(2) South Id plants. Lvs glabrous, rarely sparsely ciliate, coriaceous, simple and entire, sometimes lobed at base; cauline lvs usually 0. Infl. loosely corymbose to racemose, rarely sessile. Sepals glabrous; pedicel (15)-30-40 mm long; silique (10)-15-30 mm long.

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Cardamine depressa Hook.f.
Cardamine depressa Hook.f.
Cardamine depressa Hook.f.
Cardamine depressa Hook.f.
Cardamine depressa Hook.f.
Cardamine depressa Hook.f.
Cardamine depressa Hook.f.
Cardamine depressa Hook.f.
Cardamine depressa Hook.f.
Cardamine depressa var. acaulis Hook.f.
Cardamine depressa Hook.f.

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Cardamine depressa Hook.f.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Cardamine depressa Hook.f.
New Zealand
Southland Land District
Cardamine depressa Hook.f.
New Zealand
Westland Land District

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typification
Lectotype (designated by Heenan 2017): Rendezvous Harbour, Lord Auckland’s group, November 1840, K!
Etymology
The specific epithet depressa (Latin: flattened) probably refers to the low and compact growth habit.

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1 January 2000
4 January 2018
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