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Phytolacca L.

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Phytolacca L., Sp. Pl. 441 (1753)
Phytolacca L.

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Exotic
Wild
New Zealand
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L.
L.
1753
441
ICN
Phytolacca L.
genus
Phytolacca

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Phytolacca

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Phytolacca L.

Herbs or shrubs, occasionally trees, glabrous except for infl. Lvs thin and herbaceous. Fls ☿ or unisexual, small, in terminal or subterminal, often spiciform and erect racemes. Perianth 5-merous, lobed, or with tepals almost free, coloured, often becoming dark red, ultimately reflexed. Stamens (5)-7-22-(33), 1-2-seriate, ± irregularly arranged on disc; anthers dorsifixed. Carpels 5-10-(16), whorled, connate laterally; whole ovary depressed, globose or subglobose. Fr. a berry, or berry-like drupe, longitudinally 5-10-grooved. Seed laterally compressed with asymmetric base.

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Exotic
Cultivated
New Zealand
Political Region
P. 161; Phytolacca dioica recorded.

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8996d492-8667-4cbd-9e8a-94094d745767
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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
28 January 2014
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