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Stellaria gracilenta Hook.f.

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Stellaria gracilenta Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part II, 326 (1855)
Stellaria gracilenta Hook.f.
Webb, C.J.; Sykes, W.R.; Garnock-Jones, P.J. 1988: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. IV. Naturalised Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms, Dicotyledons. Botany Division DSIR, Christchurch.

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Hooker, J.D. 1854–1855: The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H.M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror, in the years 1839–1843, under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross. II. Flora Novae-Zelandiae. Part II. Flowerless plants. Lovell Reeve, London.
1855
326
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Stellaria gracilenta Hook.f.
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Stellaria gracilenta

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Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Caryophyllales
Caryophyllaceae
Stellaria
gracilenta

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

Stellaria gracilenta Hook.f.

Perennial erect herb up to 10 cm. tall or more, branches wiry, few or if many forming loose cushion, often dry and yellow. Stems puberulous, nodose. Lvs linear-subulate, concave above, 3-6 mm. long, with minute marginal cilia at base, tapering to short apiculus, connate, with short lfy shoot in axil of one of pair. Fls solitary and terminal, peduncle erect to 5 cm. or more long with one pair of bracts. Sepals 5, 4-5 mm. long, ovate-lanceolate, acute with membr. margins; petals 5, bifid almost to base, wide-spreading and often longer than sepals; stamens 10; styles 3, capsule valves 6, exceeding calyx when mature; seeds 6-15, pale, up to 1 mm. long, with almost transparent papillae largest on keel.
Dawson, M.I. 2008: Index of chromosome numbers of indigenous New Zealand vascular plants.

Stellaria gracilenta Hook.f.

2n = c. 88
Webb, C.J.; Sykes, W.R.; Garnock-Jones, P.J. 1988: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. IV. Naturalised Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms, Dicotyledons. Botany Division DSIR, Christchurch.

Stellaria gracilenta Hook.f.

Wiry perennial. Stems decumbent to ascending, terete, with uniform sparse to dense fine hairs, rarely glabrous, (2)-5-15-(30) cm long. Lvs yellowish green, sessile, linear to subulate, acute, connate in pairs, ciliate near base, 3-8 × 0.5-0.7 mm; lf axil often containing a reduced leafy shoot. Fls solitary, long-pedunculate. Bracts 2, linear to lanceolate, acute, 2-4 mm long; margins scarious. Peduncle erect, (20)-30-60 mm long. Sepals ovate, acute, not veined, (2.5)-3-5 mm long, glabrous; margins scarious. Petals = or > sepals. Stamens 10. Capsule ovoid, = calyx. Seeds pale brown, 0.8-1 mm long; papillae narrow, pale.

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Stellaria gracilenta Hook.f.
Stellaria gracilenta Hook.f.
Allan, H.H. (1961)
Stellaria gracilenta Hook.f.
Stellaria gracilenta Hook.f.
Dawson, M.I. (2008)
Stellaria L.
Stellaria gracilenta Hook.f.
Stellaria gracilenta Hook.f.
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R. et al. (2013)
Stellaria gracilenta Hook.f.
Stellaria gracilenta Hook.f.
Stellaria gracilenta Hook.f.
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R. et al. (2018)
Stellaria gracilenta Hook.f.
Stellaria gracilenta Hook.f.
Stellaria gracilenta Hook.f.
Webb, C.J.; Sykes, W.R.; Garnock-Jones, P.J. (1988)

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Stellaria gracilenta Hook.f.
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3b16ecc6-5c4d-4b81-ab1d-24e6b283c7ab
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1 January 2000
12 April 2007
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