Acaena pusilla (Bitter) Allan
Details
Acaena pusilla (Bitter) Allan, Fl. New Zealand 1, 362 (1961)
Nomenclature
(Bitter) Allan
Bitter
Allan
1961
362
ICN
species
Acaena pusilla
Classification
Subordinates
Descriptions
Acaena pusilla (Bitter) Allan
Main stems rather slender, up to 5 dm. long, creeping and rooting; branches ascending, c. 3-5 cm. long, sparsely to densely pilose. Lvs 2.5-3·5 cm. long; stipules deeply 3-4-fld, up to 4 mm. long; lflts 9-11. Upper lflts 6·5-8·5 mm. long, deeply serrate, brownish green to green above, paler below, glab. or nearly so above, pilose on veins below, teeth penicillate. Scape up to 9 cm. long, slender, ± pilose, nude or with one or more bracts. Heads 1 cm. or more diam. including spines. Sepals ovate to broad-lanceolate, often tinged red, rather sparsely hairy below, ± papillose above. Cupules c. 2 mm. long, obconic, tetragonous, almost winged above, pilose. Spines subequal, up to 8 mm. long, yellowish green sts tinged red. Stamens 2, anthers white. Stigma plumose.
Taxonomic concepts
Acaena pusilla (Bitter) Allan
Acaena pusilla (Bitter) Allan
Metadata
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scientific name
Names_Plants
24 June 2002
15 May 2008