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Dracophyllum recurvum Hook.f.

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Dracophyllum recurvum Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. I. (Fl. Antarct.) Part I, 50 (1844)
Dracophyllum recurvum Hook.f.

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Endemic
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New Zealand
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Hook.f.
Hook.f.
1844
50
ICN
Dracophyllum recurvum Hook.f.
species
Dracophyllum recurvum
Type: New Zealand. Mount Tongariro, 1839, J.C. Bidwill 65 (holo: K!).

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recurvum

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Dracophyllum recurvum Hook.f.

Us. a low spreading shrub, sts attaining 1 m. tall and ± 1 m. diam.; branches wide-spreading, bark dark grey to blackish; branchlets slender, reddish brown. Lvs crowded towards tips of branchlets, spreading to strongly reflexed, us. dark coloured. Sheath membr., 2.5-4(6) mm. broad, ciliolate, abruptly narrowed to coriac., dark red-brown, linear-subulate lamina (green in shade) 2-4 cm. × 1-1·5 mm.; margins minutely serrulate, apex acute to subacute. Racemes terminal on branchlets, 4-10-fld, 12-25 mm. long with stout axis. Bracts persistent, almost concealing fls; lower lflike, tips subulate to lanceolate, c. 5 mm. long. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, acute, ciliolate, ± = corolla-tube. Corolla narrow-campanulate to cylindric; tube c. 6 mm. long, lobes c. 3 mm. long, sub-acute, ovate-triangular, red to white. Anthers included; style stout, c. 2 mm. long. Capsule 3-4 mm. diam., concealed by persistent sepals.

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Dracophyllum brachycladum Colenso
Dracophyllum recurvum Hook.f.
Dracophyllum brachyphyllum Colenso
Dracophyllum recurvum Hook.f.
Dracophyllum recurvum Hook.f.
Dracophyllum recurvum Hook.f.
Dracophyllum recurvum Hook.f.
Dracophyllum recurvum Hook.f.
Dracophyllum recurvum Hook.f.
Dracophyllum recurvum Hook.f.
Dracophyllum recurvum Hook.f.
Dracophyllum recurvum Hook.f.
Dracophyllum recurvum Hook.f.
Dracophyllum recurvum Hook.f.
Dracophyllum recurvum Hook.f.
Dracophyllum recurvum Hook.f.
Dracophyllum rubrum Colenso
Dracophyllum recurvum Hook.f.
Dracophyllum tenuicaulis Colenso
Dracophyllum recurvum Hook.f.

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Dracophyllum recurvum Hook.f.
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Dracophyllum recurvum Hook.f.
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East Cape
Dracophyllum recurvum Hook.f.
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Ruahine-Cook
Dracophyllum recurvum Hook.f.
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Volcanic Plateau

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typification
Type: New Zealand. Mount Tongariro, 1839, J.C. Bidwill 65 (holo: K!).

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1 January 2000
15 February 2021
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