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Galium aparine L.

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Galium aparine L., Sp. Pl. 108 (1753)
Galium aparine L.

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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L.
L.
1753
108
Aparina
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Galium aparine L.
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Galium aparine

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aparine

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Galium aparine L.

Prostrate or scrambling annual; stems to 2 m long when through other vegetation, rather stout, branched, densely clothed in retrorse, hooked, scabrid hairs on the sharply acute angles. Lvs and stipules in whorls of 5-8, sessile, 10-60 × 2-8 mm (sometimes smaller on exposed prostrate shoots), linear-oblanceolate or narrow-elliptic, often spathulate or obovate on exposed lateral shoots; margins flat or nearly so, densely clothed in retrorse, hooked, scabrid hairs; midrib below and surface generally above ± scabrid; apex shortly awned. Fls (1)-2-(6), in axillary divaricating cymes; peduncles usually > pedicels; whorl of bracts at base of pedicels leaflike and scabrid. Corolla 1-2 mm diam., white or whitish; lobes ovate, ± mucronate. Mericarps 2.5-4 mm diam. (excluding bristles), globose or subglobose (often 1 of the pair smaller or abortive), densely furnished with hooked bristles.

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Galium aparine L.
New Zealand
Galium aparine L.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Galium aparine L.
New Zealand
Hawke's Bay Land District
Galium aparine L.
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
Galium aparine L.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Galium aparine L.
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Galium aparine L.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District

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1 January 2000
20 November 2013
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