Stellaria multiflora Hook. var. multiflora

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Name scientific

Stellaria multiflora Hook., Companion Bot. Mag. 1: 275 (1836) var. multiflora

Preferred name

Stellaria multiflora Hook. var. multiflora

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Indigenous, non-endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Heenan, P.B. (2019)

Nomenclature

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Taxonomic rank

var.

Canonical form

Stellaria multiflora var. multiflora

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Caryophyllales

Family

Caryophyllaceae

Genus

Stellaria

Species

multiflora

Synonyms

Stellaria elatinoides Hook.f.

Descriptions

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

Stellaria elatinoides Hook.f.

Description

Slender decumbent glab. herb, c. 5 cm. tall. Stems often closely branched, rooted at lower nodes, ascending above. Lvs linear-oblong, subacute, 3-5 mm. long including the wide-winged petiole that is hardly distinct from the lamina, connate. Fls solitary, axillary, peduncles very short. Sepals 5, c. 3 mm. long, narrow-lanceolate, acuminate with pale membr. border; petals apparently lacking; stamens 5-(10); styles 3, capsule ovoid, about as long as sepals, 6-valved, many-seeded; seeds > 0·5 mm. diam., brown, rough-surfaced with well-developed rounded tubercles.

Webb, C.J.; Sykes, W.R.; Garnock-Jones, P.J. 1988: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. IV. Naturalised Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms, Dicotyledons. Botany Division DSIR, Christchurch.