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Xanthium L.

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Xanthium L., Sp. Pl. 987 (1753)
Xanthium L.
Names_Fungi record source Xanthium L. 1753

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Exotic
Wild
New Zealand
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Webb, C.J.; Sykes, W.R.; Garnock-Jones, P.J. (1988)

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L.
L.
Linnaeus, C. 1753: Species Plantarum. Impensis Laurentii Salvii, Stockholm.
1753
987
ICN
Xanthium L.
genus
Xanthium

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Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Asterales
Compositae
Xanthium

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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.

Xanthium L.

Annual herbs. Lvs alternate, simple, entire to serrate or lobed. Capitula unisexual, sessile or shortly pedunculate, solitary, terminal and in panicles or racemes, or clustered in axils. ♂ capitula ± globose; involucral bracts in 1 row; receptacle conic; scales present; corolla tubular. ♀ capitula ovoid; involucral bracts in 2 rows, the outer small and free, the inner connate, prickly and ending in 1-2 beaks containing the 2 florets; corolla 0. Achenes all similar, ovoid, enclosed within the expanded prickly involucre; pappus 0.

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Xanthium L.
Xanthium L.
Allan Herbarium (2007)
Xanthium L.
Asteraceae
Xanthium L.
Xanthium
Mabberley, D.J. (2008)
Xanthium L.
Compositae Giseke
Xanthium L.
Xanthium L.
Webb, C.J.; Sykes, W.R.; Garnock-Jones, P.J. (1988)

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1 January 2000
15 August 2008
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