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Verbena litoralis Kunth

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Verbena litoralis Kunth
Verbena litoralis Kunth

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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Kunth
Kunth
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Verbena litoralis Kunth
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Verbena litoralis

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litoralis

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Verbena litoralis Kunth

Short-lived perennial; stems square, somewhat scabrid, to c. 1 m tall. Lvs mostly petiolate, the uppermost sometimes subsessile. Lamina of lower lvs to c. 10 × 2.5 cm, lanceolate to oblong or rhomboid, with ± strigulose hairs scarcely swollen at base above and below, usually coarsely or deeply serrate; veins not impressed above; base attenuate; apex acute. Infl. loosely paniculate; spikes to c. 5 cm long at maximum flowering, hairy, elongating to c. 15 cm long at fruiting, slender; fls rather dense but soon becoming distant. Bracts ± = calyx at flowering, lanceolate, keeled, acuminate, ciliate. Calyx 2-3 mm long, glandular-hairy; teeth green, acute. Corolla tube > calyx, rather sparingly hairy outside; limb 2-3 mm diam., bluish or mauve, drying a similar colour. Nutlets c. 1.5 mm long, oblong, faintly ribbed dorsally, brown, finely white-papillate on flattened ventral surface.

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Verbena litoralis Kunth
Verbena litoralis Kunth

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Verbena litoralis Kunth
Australia
Verbena litoralis Kunth
Chile
Verbena litoralis Kunth
French Polynesia
Verbena litoralis Kunth
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Verbena litoralis Kunth
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Verbena litoralis Kunth
United States

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1 January 2000
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