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Modiola caroliniana (L.) G.Don

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Modiola caroliniana (L.) G.Don
Modiola caroliniana (L.) G.Don

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New Zealand
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(L.) G.Don
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G.Don
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Modiola caroliniana

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caroliniana

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Modiola caroliniana (L.) G.Don

Annual herb, procumbent and rooting along stems, sometimes ascending at tips. Stems sparsely to moderately clothed in stellate hairs in younger parts, becoming ± glabrous toward base. Lvs usually ± glabrous above, sparsely to moderately clothed in stellate hairs below, suborbicular to ovate-cordate and acute, (5)-10-40-(50) mm long; lvs of young plants usually shallowly lobed and irregularly crenate; lvs of mature plants often deeply palmately divided into 3-7 pinnatisect lobes; petioles 5-80-(100) mm long; stipules ovate to oblong, 3-8 mm long. Fls axillary and solitary; fruiting pedicels (5)-10-50-(80) mm long; epicalyx segments oblanceolate, < calyx; calyx teeth sparsely to moderate hairy with simple hairs, ovate-triangular, acute to acuminate, = or > tube, somewhat spreading but not enlarged at fruiting; petals bright orange to reddish orange, usually turning purple when dried, 3-7 mm long. Cells 15-25 per fr., setaceous, particularly along the ridged back; dorsal apical angles with a short slender awn. Seeds brown, glabrous or clothed in sparse fine hairs, c. 1.5 mm long.

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Modiola caroliniana (L.) G.Don
Modiola caroliniana (L.) G.Don
Modiola caroliniana (L.) G.Don
Modiola caroliniana (L.) G.Don
Modiola caroliniana (L.) G.Don

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Modiola caroliniana (L.) G.Don
Australia
Modiola caroliniana (L.) G.Don
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Modiola caroliniana (L.) G.Don
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Modiola caroliniana (L.) G.Don
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Modiola caroliniana (L.) G.Don
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Modiola caroliniana (L.) G.Don
New Zealand
Wellington Land District

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899b2c96-0c80-45ca-a03f-4f981a6ceb54
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1 January 2000
31 March 2016
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