Montia racemosa (Buchanan) Heenan
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Montia racemosa (Buchanan) Heenan, New Zealand J. Bot. 45: 438 (2007)
Montia racemosa (Buchanan) Heenan
Biostatus
Nomenclature
(Buchanan) Heenan
Buchanan
Heenan
2007
438
ICN
species
Montia racemosa
Classification
Descriptions
Herb, up to 40 cm diam., forming loose sparse tufts, rarely forming compact mats. Leaves up to 30 × 1.8 mm, narrow and approaching linear; lamina narrowly elliptic to narrowly lanceolate; adaxial and abaxial surfaces brown to green-brown, usually glossy; adaxial surface convex; adaxial surface flat to sometimes slightly concave; apex subacute to obtuse; petiole indistinct and grading into lamina base; old leaves red-brown to orange-red. Involucral leaves 2.3–2.4 × 2.3–2.4 mm, red-brown; lateral fold absent; apex obtuse. Flowers 8.0–12.0 mm diam. Tepals 4.0–6.2 × 2.2— 3.5 mm, broadly elliptic to obovate, white and flushed pink in bud and when mature, not overlapping; apex obtuse, sometimes with a shallow notch; claw not, or only weakly, differentiated. Nectary orange-yellow. Filaments 2.2–2.5 mm long, ≤½ tepal length, white, distinctly curved at apex. Anthers 0.8–1.1 × 0.6–0.7 mm, cream. Ovary 0.6–0.7 × 0.6– 0.7 mm, obovoid, red-brown to red-green; sutures not prominent. Style 1.1–1.3 mm long; flushed pink. Stigmatic branches 1.2 mm long, fluorescent pink, straight prior to spreading. Capsule 2.1–2.2 × 2.2– 2.3 mm. Seeds 1.2–1.4 × 1.1–1.2 mm, slightly to moderately rugose, dark brown. FL Nov–Jan; FT Dec–Mar.
Taxonomic concepts
Claytonia australasica var. racemosa Buchanan
Montia racemosa (Buchanan) Heenan
Montia racemosa (Buchanan) Heenan
Montia racemosa (Buchanan) Heenan
Montia racemosa (Buchanan) Heenan
Montia racemosa (Buchanan) Heenan
Montia racemosa (Buchanan) Heenan
Montia racemosa (Buchanan) Heenan
Montia racemosa (Buchanan) Heenan
Montia racemosa (Buchanan) Heenan
Montia racemosa (Buchanan) Heenan
Montia racemosa (Buchanan) Heenan
Montia racemosa (Buchanan) Heenan
Neopaxia racemosa (Buchanan) Heenan
Neopaxia racemosa (Buchanan) Heenan
Montia racemosa (Buchanan) Heenan
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Identification keys
Metadata
892aba73-6381-4b25-8506-f0202b8109b4
scientific name
Names_Plants
27 August 2007