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Tetragonia trigyna Banks & Sol. ex Hook.f.

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Indigenous, non-endemic
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New Zealand
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Banks & Sol. ex Hook.f.
Hook.f.
Hooker, J.D. 1864: Handbook of the New Zealand Flora: a systematic description of the native plants of New Zealand and the Chatham, Kermadec's, Lord Auckland's, Campbell's and Macquarie's Islands. Part I. Reeve, London.
1864
84
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Tetragonia trigyna Banks & Sol. ex Hook.f.
species
Tetragonia trigyna
Type collections: ‘Northern Island: east coast, Banks and Solander. Sand-hills, Cape Turnagain, Colenso. Auckland, Sinclair.’ Lectotype (fide Green 1994 as holotype): New Zealand, 1769–1770, J. Banks & D. Solander s.n., BM 000906651 (https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/61e35236-5044-493f-befd-5f05e8bfd8f6). Syntypes: New Zealand, 1769–1770, J. Banks & D. Solander s.n., AK100182, WELT SP063686

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Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Caryophyllales
Aizoaceae
Tetragonia
trigyna

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Allan, H.H. 1961: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. I. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledones. Government Printer, Wellington.

Tetragonia trigyna Banks & Sol. ex Hook.f.

Trailing or lianoid herb or subshrub with terete branching softly woody stems up to ± 3 m. long. Lvs on flattened petioles up to 1 cm. long; lamina fleshy, papillose, (1)-2-3-(5) × 1-3 cm., obtuse, deltoid to broad- ovate to ovate-rhomboid, rather abruptly narrowed to petiole. Fls on slender peduncles ± 5 mm. long, solitary or occ. paired, occ. unisexual; per. yellow. Calyx tube subglobose; stamens 10-20; ovary 2-(3)- celled; styles 2-(3). Fr. 5-7 mm. diam., subglobose, succulent, bright to dark red, not horned; seeds 1-3.

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Tetragonia expansa var. strongylocarpa Endl.
Tetragonia expansa var. strongylocarpa Endl.
Heenan, P.B. (2022)
Tetragonia trigyna Banks & Sol. ex Hook.f.
Tetragonia implexicoma var. chathamica F.Muell.
Tetragonia implexicoma var. chathamica F.Muell.
de Lange, P.J.; Cameron, E.K. (1999)
Tetragonia implexicoma (Miq.) Hook.f.
Tetragonia implexicoma var. chathamica F.Muell.
Tetragonia implexicoma var. chathamica F.Muell.
Heenan, P.B. (2022)
Tetragonia trigyna Banks & Sol. ex Hook.f.
Tetragonia strongylocarpa (Endl.) W.R.B.Oliv.
Tetragonia strongylocarpa (Endl.) W.R.B.Oliv.
Heenan, P.B. (2022)
Tetragonia trigyna Banks & Sol. ex Hook.f.
Tetragonia trigyna Banks & Sol. ex Hook.f.
Tetragonia trigyna Banks & Sol. ex Hook.f.
Allan, H.H. (1961)
Tetragonia trigyna Banks & Sol. ex Hook.f.
Tetragonia trigyna Banks & Sol. ex Hook.f.
de Lange, P.J.; Cameron, E.K. (1999)
Tetragonia implexicoma (Miq.) Hook.f.
Tetragonia trigyna Banks & Sol. ex Hook.f.
Tetragonia trigyna Banks & Sol. ex Hook.f.
Green, P.S. (1994)
Tetragonia implexicoma (Miq.) Hook.f.
Tetragonia trigyna Banks & Sol. ex Hook.f.
Tetragonia trigyna Banks & Sol. ex Hook.f.
Heenan, P.B. (2022)
Tetragonia trigyna Banks & Sol. ex Hook.f.

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Tetragonia expansa var. strongylocarpa Endl.
Australia
New South Wales
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Australia
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Australia
New South Wales
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Tetragonia trigyna Banks & Sol. ex Hook.f.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
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New Zealand
Gisborne Land District
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Tetragonia trigyna Banks & Sol. ex Hook.f.
New Zealand
Hawke's Bay Land District
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Tetragonia trigyna Banks & Sol. ex Hook.f.
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
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New Zealand
Nelson Land District
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New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
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New Zealand
Otago Land District
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New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
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New Zealand
Southland Land District
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New Zealand
Taranaki Land District
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Tetragonia trigyna Banks & Sol. ex Hook.f.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
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New Zealand
Westland Land District
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typification
Type collections: ‘Northern Island: east coast, Banks and Solander. Sand-hills, Cape Turnagain, Colenso. Auckland, Sinclair.’ Lectotype (fide Green 1994 as holotype): New Zealand, 1769–1770, J. Banks & D. Solander s.n., BM 000906651 (https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/61e35236-5044-493f-befd-5f05e8bfd8f6). Syntypes: New Zealand, 1769–1770, J. Banks & D. Solander s.n., AK100182, WELT SP063686
Heenan, P.B. 2022: Taxonomy with an absence of evidence results in unnecessary nomenclatural change: the case of Tetragonia trigyna Banks & Sol. ex Hook.f. (Aizoaceae) from New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 60(2): 169–138. (Published online: 2021 (https://doi.org/10.1080/0028825X.2021.1955715))

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371e6e00-5df7-4762-8453-a28c73723cfb
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1 January 2000
29 July 2021
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