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Myosurus L.

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Myosurus L., Sp. Pl. 284 (1753)
Myosurus L.

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region

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L.
L.
Linnaeus, C. 1753: Species Plantarum. Impensis Laurentii Salvii, Stockholm.
1753
284
ICN
Myosurus L.
genus
Myosurus

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Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Ranunculales
Ranunculaceae
Myosurus

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

Myosurus L.

Scapes us. several, nude, each with 1 minute fl.; sepals us. 5, minutely spurred at base; petals 5 or 0; stamens 5-20; achenes ∞, crowded on a long slender receptacle. Tiny annual herbs with tufted linear-spathulate lvs. A genus of a few rather ill-defined spp., mainly of North Temperate regions. The N.Z. sp. is apparently endemic.

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Myosurus L.
Myosurus L.
Allan, H.H. (1961)
Myosurus L.
Myosurus L.
Dawson, M.I. (2008)
Ranunculaceae
Myosurus L.
Myosurus
Mabberley, D.J. (2008)
Myosurus L.
Ranunculaceae

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4ccdd9ff-cda5-4d96-8c3a-edc0c7735645
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
30 October 2023
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