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Hectorella Hook.f.

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Hectorella Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 27 (1864)
Hectorella Hook.f.

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Endemic
Wild
New Zealand
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Hook.f.
Hook.f.
1864
27
ICN
Hectorella Hook.f.
genus
Hectorella

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Hectorella

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Hectorella Hook.f.

Fls hermaphrodite, terminal on short lateral branches; two outer members variously interpreted as sepals or prophylls enclosing petaloid per. of 5 imbricate members; stamens 5, hypog., alternating with per. segs; filaments long and adnate to per. at base, anthers dorsifixed and extrorse; ovary unilocular, ovoid, narrowed into erect style with 2 triangular stigma lobes alternating with prophylls; ovules 4-5, on slender funicles, embryo curved. Fr. capsular but ind. Densely tufted glab. perennial cushion plants with entire lvs imbricated all round stem. Monotypic genus confined to N.Z.

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Hectorella Hook.f.
Hectorella Hook.f.
Hectorella Hook.f.
Hectorella Hook.f.
Hectorella Hook.f.
Hectorella Hook.f.
Hectorella Hook.f.
Hectorella Hook.f.

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Hectorella Hook.f.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District

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5942982b-626e-40d5-93d4-b8a0e0deed9f
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
6 November 2023
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