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Persicaria capitata (Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don) H.Gross

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Persicaria capitata (Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don) H.Gross, Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 277 (1913)
Persicaria capitata (Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don) H.Gross

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New Zealand
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(Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don) H.Gross
D.Don
H.Gross
1913
277
ICN
species
Persicaria capitata

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Mat-like perennial with rather slender, ± woody rootstock and long, slender, creeping, rooting stems; shoots grooved, ± brown-hairy, reddish. Lvs on all shoots similar; petiole short or lvs subsessile. Lamina 15-40-(55) × 8-25-(35) mm, ± broad-ovate, becoming red with age, rose-pink and with brown or white hairs on veins below and generally on the midrib above, with a crescent-shaped brown or purplish mark above; margins entire or nearly so, strongly ciliate and with red marginal line; base ± cuneate, slightly oblique; apex acute or subacute. Ochreae (2)-3-9 mm long, brown-hairy, truncate. Fls in globose or subglobose heads, numerous; head (5)-7-15-(20) mm diam.; peduncles usually > lvs, erect, with 1-6 branches in the upper 1/2, glandular-hairy; pedicels 0; bracts scarious, almost = fls. Perianth 2.5-3 mm long, pink, scarcely accrescent; segments imbricate, ovate or elliptic-ovate, glabrous. Nut c. 1.5 mm long, trigonous, dark brown, smooth and glossy, tightly enclosed in persistent perianth.

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Persicaria capitata (Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don) H.Gross
Persicaria capitata (Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don) H.Gross
Persicaria capitata (Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don) H.Gross
Polygonum capitatum Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don
Persicaria capitata (Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don) H.Gross

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Persicaria capitata (Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don) H.Gross
China
Persicaria capitata (Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don) H.Gross
Nepal
Persicaria capitata (Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don) H.Gross
New Zealand
Persicaria capitata (Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don) H.Gross
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Persicaria capitata (Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don) H.Gross
New Zealand
Gisborne Land District
Persicaria capitata (Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don) H.Gross
New Zealand
Hawke's Bay Land District
Persicaria capitata (Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don) H.Gross
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Persicaria capitata (Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don) H.Gross
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Persicaria capitata (Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don) H.Gross
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Persicaria capitata (Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don) H.Gross
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Persicaria capitata (Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don) H.Gross
New Zealand
Westland Land District
Persicaria capitata (Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don) H.Gross
United States

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9 October 2007
5 April 2016
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