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Colobanthus affinis (Hook.) Hook.f.

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Colobanthus affinis (Hook.) Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. III. (Fl. Tasman.) Part I, 45 (1855)
Colobanthus affinis (Hook.) Hook.f.
Allan, H.H. 1961: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. I. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledones. Government Printer, Wellington.

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region

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Hook.f.
Hook.
(Hook.) Hook.f.
Hooker, J.D. 1855–1857 ("1860"): 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. III. Flora Tasmaniae. Vol. I. Dicoteledones. Lovell Reeve, London.
1855
45
ICN
Spergula affinis Hook.
species
Colobanthus affinis

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Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Caryophyllales
Caryophyllaceae
Colobanthus
affinis

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

Colobanthus affinis (Hook.) Hook.f.

Clumps several cm. across formed of one or more plants. Branches many, mostly short, occ. 3, rarely 5 cm. long, clothed with old lf-bases. Lvs soft, ± grassy; sheath short, broad; blade 5-15-35 mm. long, linear, ending in short but definite apiculate tip. Peduncles about = lvs or longer. Fls very broad; sepals 5, ± 3 mm. long, much broader than lvs, ovate, obtuse or at most subacute, often purple-bordered; capsule valves up to ⅓ longer than sepals when fully open; seeds with very low rounded papillae only.
Dawson, M.I. 2008: Index of chromosome numbers of indigenous New Zealand vascular plants.

Colobanthus affinis (Hook.) Hook.f.

n = c. 40

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Colobanthus affinis (Hook.) Hook.f.
Colobanthus affinis (Hook.) Hook.f.
Allan, H.H. (1961)
Colobanthus affinis (Hook.) Hook.f.
Colobanthus affinis (Hook.) Hook.f.
Dawson, M.I. (2008)
Colobanthus Bartl.
Colobanthus affinis (Hook.) Hook.f.
Colobanthus affinis (Hook.) Hook.f.
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R. et al. (2013)
Colobanthus affinis (Hook.) Hook.f.
Colobanthus affinis (Hook.) Hook.f.
Colobanthus affinis (Hook.) Hook.f.
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R. et al. (2018)
Colobanthus affinis (Hook.) Hook.f.
Spergula affinis Hook.
Spergula affinis Hook.
Allan, H.H. (1961)
Colobanthus affinis (Hook.) Hook.f.

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Colobanthus affinis (Hook.) Hook.f.
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Colobanthus affinis (Hook.) Hook.f.
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East Cape
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Egmont-Wanganui
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North-western
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Ruahine-Cook
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editorial
"Vegetatively, at least in N.Z., specimens here attributed to C. apetalus and C. affinis are often indistinguishable, although they differ constantly in shape and relative size of sepals. C. affinis has the more restricted distribution here, mostly in high rainfall areas. These two spp. were for a long time included under C. billardieri Fenzl (Ann. Wien Mus. 1, 1836, 49), a name which was nomenclaturally superfluous when published, since both Sagina crassifolia D'Urv. and Spergula apetala Labill. were quoted as synonyms" (Allan 1961).
Allan, H.H. 1961: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. I. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledones. Government Printer, Wellington.

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52fd1e2a-bcad-4180-bbfb-1789062f9b34
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
12 April 2007
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