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Epilobium porphyrium G.Simpson

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Epilobium porphyrium G.Simpson, Trans. Roy. Soc. New Zealand 75: 189 (1945)
Epilobium porphyrium G.Simpson
Raven, P.H.; Raven, T. E. 1976: The Genus Epilobium (Onagraceae) in Australasia: a Systematic and Evolutionary Study. New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Bulletin 216: 1–321.

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New Zealand
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G.Simpson
G.Simpson
Simpson, G. 1945: Notes on Some New Zealand Plants and Descriptions of New Species (No. 4). Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand 75: 187–202.
1945
189
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Epilobium porphyrium G.Simpson
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Epilobium porphyrium

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Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Myrtales
Onagraceae
Epilobium
porphyrium

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

Epilobium porphyrium G.Simpson

"From its colouring this may have been confused with , but that plant has a prostrate and rooting habit, and Buchanan's specimens have pedicels 3-4 cm long, elongating in fruit to 6 cm."
Dawson, M.I. 2008: Index of chromosome numbers of indigenous New Zealand vascular plants.

Epilobium porphyrium G.Simpson

n = 18
2n = 36
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.

Epilobium porphyrium G.Simpson

Tufted herb, sometimes rooting near the base, 4-20 cm tall. Stems erect, often reddish, with fine lines of strigillose or erect eglandular hairs decurrent from margins of petioles. Lamina of lf elliptic, 6-15 × 3-7 mm. Floral tube 0.4-0.8 mm deep, glabrous. Petals white, later flushed pink, 3.2-5 × 2.2-2.6 mm. Capsule glabrous, 1.5-2.3 cm long, usually subsessile, rarely pedicellate.

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Epilobium porphyrium G.Simpson
Epilobium porphyrium G.Simpson
Allan, H.H. (1961)
Epilobium porphyrium G.Simpson
Epilobium porphyrium G.Simpson
Dawson, M.I. (2008)
Epilobium L.
Epilobium porphyrium G.Simpson
Epilobium porphyrium G.Simpson
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R. et al. (2013)
Epilobium porphyrium G.Simpson
Epilobium porphyrium G.Simpson
Epilobium porphyrium G.Simpson
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R. et al. (2018)
Epilobium porphyrium G.Simpson
Epilobium porphyrium G.Simpson
Epilobium porphyrium G.Simpson
Raven, P.H.; Raven, T. E. (1976)
Epilobium porphyrium G.Simpson
Epilobium porphyrium G.Simpson
Epilobium porphyrium G.Simpson
Webb, C.J.; Sykes, W.R.; Garnock-Jones, P.J. (1988)

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52a89742-0974-4b75-961d-4371e450d57a
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1 January 2000
15 May 2008
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