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Myrtus ×ralphii Hook.f.

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Myrtus ×ralphii Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part II, 329 (1853)
Lophomyrtus ×ralphii (Hook.f.) Burret.

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Hook.f.
Hooker, J.D. 1854–1855: The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H.M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror, in the years 1839–1843, under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross. II. Flora Novae-Zelandiae. Part II. Flowerless plants. Lovell Reeve, London.
1853
329
Myrtus Ralphii
ICN
Myrtus ×ralphii Hook.f.
species
Myrtus ×ralphii

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Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Myrtales
Myrtaceae
Myrtus
×ralphii

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Myrtus ×ralphii Hook.f.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
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Myrtus ×ralphii Hook.f.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
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Myrtus ×ralphii Hook.f.
New Zealand
Westland Land District
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taxonomic status
Cockayne concludes that this taxon "is a polymorphic hybrid between M. bullata Sol. and M. obcordata (Raoul) Hook.f."
Cockayne, L. 1918: Notes on New Zealand floristic botany, including descriptions of new species, etc. (No. 3). Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 50: 161–191.
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When described Joseph Hooker (1855) regarded this nothotaxon as a species, Myrtus ralphii. Cockayne (1918) concludes that this taxon "is a polymorphic hybrid between M. bullata Sol. and M. obcordata (Raoul) Hook.f."
Cockayne, L. 1918: Notes on New Zealand floristic botany, including descriptions of new species, etc. (No. 3). Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 50: 161–191.

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4 March 2004
30 October 2023
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