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Arctotheca calendula (L.) Levyns

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(L.) Levyns
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Levyns
1942
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Arctotheca calendula

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calendula

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Arctotheca calendula (L.) Levyns

Annual rosette herb. Stems sprawling, ascending, up to 30 cm long, rarely 0, with subappressed felty or woolly tomentum and sparse coarse dark multicellular hairs above. Lvs lyrate-pinnatifid to 2-pinnatisect, petiolate, (3)-5-30 × 1-5-(10) cm, with broadly ovate to deltoid terminal lobe and 3-5 pairs of lanceolate, oblong, or oblanceolate lateral lobes, green with scattered short hairs above, silvery with appressed felted tomentum beneath; margins toothed; stem lvs amplexicaul. Capitula solitary on erect scapes. Involucre 1-1.5 cm diam. Involucral bracts in 4-5 series, glabrous or sparsely tomentose, greenish; outermost bracts narrowed into a linear terminal appendage; inner bracts oblong, obtuse, usually scarious or dark on margins. Ligules 1.5-2.5 cm long, pale yellow, tinged greenish or purplish beneath. Disc florets dark. Achenes obovoid, weakly flattened with narrow lateral ridges and a weak dorsal ridge, finely wrinkled, dark brown, 2-2.5 mm long, densely covered with long, buff to mauve woolly hairs. Pappus scales brown or purple, scarious, c. 1 mm long.

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Arctotheca calendula (L.) Levyns
Arctotheca calendula (L.) Levyns
Arctotheca calendula (L.) Levyns
Arctotheca calendula (L.) Levyns
Arctotheca calendula (L.) Levyns
Arctotheca calendula (L.) Levyns
Arctotheca calendula (L.) Levyns
Arctotheca calendula (L.) Levyns
Cryptostemma calendulacea R.Br.
Arctotheca calendula (L.) Levyns

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Arctotheca calendula (L.) Levyns
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Arctotheca calendula (L.) Levyns
New Zealand
Gisborne Land District
Arctotheca calendula (L.) Levyns
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
Arctotheca calendula (L.) Levyns
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Arctotheca calendula (L.) Levyns
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Arctotheca calendula (L.) Levyns
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Arctotheca calendula (L.) Levyns
New Zealand
Taranaki Land District
Arctotheca calendula (L.) Levyns
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District

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551f60ce-d2d0-408e-8697-cece3ae4f1fb
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1 January 2000
27 October 2009
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