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Xanthium strumarium L.

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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Xanthium strumarium L.
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Xanthium strumarium

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strumarium

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Xanthium strumarium L.

Erect annual, up to c. 1 m tall. Stems sparsely to moderately hairy above, becoming glabrous below, usually branched. Lvs long-petiolate, spineless; lamina green with with scattered short, scabrid, hairs and glands on both surfaces, broad-ovate, irregularly serrate, 3-lobed or not lobed, cordate or truncate at base, 5-15 cm long; uppermost lvs smaller and narrower. ♂ and ♀ capitula in axillary or terminal clusters; ♀ sometimes solitary; ♂ with numerous florets. Fruiting involucre sparsely to moderately scabrid, sometimes almost glabrous at maturity, 15-25 × 8-20 mm; prickles hooked, glabrous or hairy, 3-5 mm long; beaks 2, conspicuous, 4-6 mm long.

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Xanthium strumarium L.
Xanthium strumarium L.
Xanthium strumarium L.
Xanthium strumarium L.
Xanthium strumarium L.
Xanthium strumarium L.
Xanthium strumarium L.

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Xanthium strumarium L.
Cook Islands
Xanthium strumarium L.
Cook Islands
Rarotonga
Xanthium strumarium L.
Fiji
Xanthium strumarium L.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Xanthium strumarium L.
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Xanthium strumarium L.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District

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68e30256-41ff-4e42-8ccf-92ece41d2360
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1 January 2000
14 May 2009
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