Callitriche muelleri Sond.
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Callitriche muelleri Sond., Linnaea 28: 229 (1856)
Callitriche muelleri Sond.
Biostatus
Nomenclature
Sond.
Sond.
1856
229
ICN
Callitriche muelleri Sond.
species
Callitriche muelleri
Classification
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Descriptions
Callitriche muelleri Sond.
Stems filiform, much-branched, up to 2 dm. or more long in water, forming matted patches on mud. Lvs on filiform petioles up to 3 mm. long; lamina rhomboid to suborbicular, membr., (2)-3-4 × (1)-3-4 mm., ± cuneately narrowed to base; margins us. with 1 minute tooth, or a pair. ♂ and ♀ sts together, on very short peduncles; bracts 0; stamens and styles very short. Fr. ± orbicular, emarginate, ± 1·5 mm. diam.; commissural groove deep; wings pale, broad, ± crisped. Seeds brown.
Callitriche muelleri Sond.
2n = 10
Callitriche muelleri Sond.
Monoecious, prostrate, branching, terrestrial herb. Lvs 2.5-7.5 × 1.5-4.8 mm; lamina thin, typically rhomboid, broader than long, with a single small tooth on either side and with a free vein running to it, otherwise 3-5-nerved; earlier-formed lvs simpler in outline. Fls usually 1 ♂ and 1 ♀ together in an axil, ebracteolate. Filaments c. 0.2-0.3 mm long. Styles c. 0.05 mm long, lengthening to 0.15 mm in young fr. but falling before maturity. Fr. 1.1-(1.2) × (1.2)-1.3-(1.4) mm, broadly obcordate or oblong, ferrugineous; wing broad and conspicuous, membranous, crispate, pale brown or whitish; faces shallowly grooved; commissural groove deep.
Taxonomic concepts
Callitriche macropteryx Hegelm.
Callitriche muelleri Sond.
Callitriche macropteryx Hegelm.
Callitriche muelleri Sond.
Callitriche microphylla Colenso
Callitriche muelleri Sond.
Callitriche microphylla Colenso
Callitriche muelleri Sond.
Callitriche muelleri Sond.
Callitriche muelleri Sond.
Callitriche muelleri Sond.
Callitriche muelleri Sond.
Callitriche muelleri Sond.
Callitriche muelleri Sond.
Callitriche muelleri Sond.
Callitriche muelleri Sond.
Callitriche muelleri Sond.
Callitriche muelleri Sond.
Callitriche muelleri Sond.
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Metadata
83dc6081-0ccd-44b0-8a2c-0474e6c83727
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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
25 May 2022