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Petunia ×atkinsiana (Sweet) D.Don ex W.H.Baxter

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Petunia ×atkinsiana (Sweet) D.Don ex W.H.Baxter (1839)
Petunia ×atkinsiana (Sweet) D.Don ex W.H.Baxter

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Exotic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region
The biostatus follows that of the synonym Petunia ×hybrida.

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W.H.Baxter
Sweet
(Sweet) D.Don ex W.H.Baxter
1839
ICN
species
Petunia ×atkinsiana

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×atkinsiana

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Annual or short-lived spreading perennial, clammy or viscid with glandular hairs, especially on young shoots, peduncles and pedicels. Petiole short. Lamina 2-6 × 1.5-6 cm, orbicular to lanceolate; base attenuate; apex rounded to acute. Calyx 10-20 × 2-8 mm, narrow-oblong to spathulate, densely glandular-hairy, ± obtuse. Corolla c. 3.5-7 cm long; tube densely glandular-hairy outside; limb ± patent, 4-6 cm diam., white, pink, crimson, purple or violet. Capsule 6-10 mm long, ovoid. Seed 0.5-0.7 mm diam., mostly globose to oblong, strongly reticulate.

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Petunia ×atkinsiana (Sweet) D.Don ex W.H.Baxter
Petunia ×atkinsiana (Sweet) D.Don ex W.H.Baxter
Petunia ×atkinsiana (Sweet) D.Don ex W.H.Baxter
Petunia ×hybrida E.Vilm.
Petunia ×atkinsiana (Sweet) D.Don ex W.H.Baxter

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Petunia ×atkinsiana (Sweet) D.Don ex W.H.Baxter
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Petunia ×atkinsiana (Sweet) D.Don ex W.H.Baxter
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Petunia ×atkinsiana (Sweet) D.Don ex W.H.Baxter
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Petunia ×atkinsiana (Sweet) D.Don ex W.H.Baxter
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Petunia ×atkinsiana (Sweet) D.Don ex W.H.Baxter
New Zealand
Taranaki Land District
Petunia ×atkinsiana (Sweet) D.Don ex W.H.Baxter
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Petunia ×atkinsiana (Sweet) D.Don ex W.H.Baxter
Niue
Petunia ×atkinsiana (Sweet) D.Don ex W.H.Baxter
Norfolk Island
Petunia ×atkinsiana (Sweet) D.Don ex W.H.Baxter
Tonga

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3936eafa-f52d-4590-ba62-d8266575f56d
scientific name
Names_Plants
20 November 2013
2 July 2025
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