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Cerastium fontanum Baumg.

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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Baumg.
Baumg.
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Cerastium fontanum Baumg.
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Cerastium fontanum

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Cerastium fontanum Baumg.

Perennial, often with short tufted non-flowering axillary branches. Flowering stems ascending to erect, (5)-15-45-(60) cm tall, with dense spreading eglandular hairs. Lvs ovate, lanceolate, elliptic or oblanceolate, (5)-10-25-(50) × 3-10-(20) mm, the lower petiolate, the upper sessile, with eglandular hairs. Infl. crowded; infructescence lax; fruiting pedicels usually > sepals, with dense eglandular hairs. Bracts ovate, the lower without scarious margins, eglandular hairy on both surfaces, the upper with scarious margins, glabrous above. Sepals scarious on margins, 4-6 mm long, glabrous above, with eglandular hairs on green part beneath; hairs not overtopping apex. Petals c. = sepals. Styles 1.5-2 mm long. Capsule cylindric, 2× length of calyx. Seeds c. 0.6 mm long, tuberculate.

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Cerastium fontanum Baumg.
Cerastium fontanum Baumg.
Cerastium fontanum Baumg.

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Cerastium fontanum Baumg.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Cerastium fontanum Baumg.
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
Cerastium fontanum Baumg.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Cerastium fontanum Baumg.
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Cerastium fontanum Baumg.
New Zealand
Southland Land District
Cerastium fontanum Baumg.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Cerastium fontanum Baumg.
New Zealand
Westland Land District
Cerastium fontanum Baumg.
Norway
Cerastium fontanum Baumg.
United Kingdom

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N.Z. material of C. fontanum belongs to subsp. vulgare(Hartman) Greuter et Burdet.

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3754cb5d-0576-4bdc-bab4-3339faf91b79
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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
4 February 2013
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