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Drapetes laxus (Cheeseman) Allan

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Drapetes laxus (Cheeseman) Allan, Fl. New Zealand 1, 288 (1961)
Kelleria laxa (Cheeseman) Heads
Heads, M.J. 1990: A revision of the genera Kelleria and Drapetes (Thymelaeaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 3: 595–652.

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Allan
Cheeseman
(Cheeseman) Allan
Allan, H.H. 1961: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. I. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledones. Government Printer, Wellington.
1961
288
ICN
Drapetes dieffenbachii var. laxa Cheeseman
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Drapetes laxus

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Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Malvales
Thymelaeaceae
Drapetes
laxus

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

Drapetes laxus (Cheeseman) Allan

Plant forming lax patches up to 30 cm. or more diam.; stems and branches prostrate and rooting, up to 4 mm. diam.; branchlets spreading to suberect, up to 5 cm. long, glabrate except at lf-bases. Lvs erecto-patent, densely imbricate, 4-5 × 1-1·5 mm., linear- to elliptic-oblong, rounded at apex, nearly flat, submembr.; venation us. evident, margins ciliate, apex penicillate. Fls 3-8 per head; scales 8, minute, distinct. Per. tube villous, 1·75-2 mm. long; lobes 1·5-1·75 mm. long, oblong. Ovary ovoid, villous at apex. Fr. ovoid, 2 mm. long.

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Drapetes laxus (Cheeseman) Allan
Drapetes laxus (Cheeseman) Allan
Allan, H.H. (1961)
Drapetes laxus (Cheeseman) Allan
Drapetes laxus (Cheeseman) Allan
Heads, M.J. (1990)
Kelleria laxa (Cheeseman) Heads

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Drapetes laxus (Cheeseman) Allan
New Zealand
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13 March 2002
7 October 2005
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