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Epacris Cav.

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Epacris Cav., Icon. [Cavanilles] 4, 25, t. 344 (1797)
Epacris Cav.

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region

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Cav.
Cav.
1797
25, t. 344
ICN
Epacris Cav.
genus
Epacris

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Epacris

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Epacris Cav.

Fls 5-merous, axillary, solitary, sessile or shortly peduncled. Bracts ∞, imbricate, investing peduncle. Staminal filaments short, inserted on corolla-tube; anthers not or hardly exserted. Disk hypog., us. of 5 free scales. Ovules ∞, attached to a central placenta; capsule loculicidally dehiscent, seeds ∞. Mostly erect rather rigid shrubs with subsessile crowded lvs. Some 50 mostly Australian spp., with a few in Tasmania, N.Z., New Caledonia. The N.Z. sp. endemic.

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Epacris Cav.
Epacris Cav.
Epacris Cav.
Epacris Cav.
Epacris Cav.
Epacris Cav.
Epacris Cav.
Epacris
Epacris Cav.

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Epacris Cav.
Australia
Epacris Cav.
Australia
Australian Capital Territory
Epacris Cav.
Australia
New South Wales
Epacris Cav.
Australia
Tasmania
Epacris Cav.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Epacris Cav.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District

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3f5b4d29-759c-4ad0-86e7-a6562d968619
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
21 February 2014
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