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Kelleria villosa Berggr.

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Kelleria villosa Berggr., Minneskr. Kongl. Fysiogr. Sällsk. Lund 8: 16 (1877)
Kelleria villosa Berggr.

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Endemic
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New Zealand
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Berggr.
Berggr.
1877
16
ICN
Kelleria villosa Berggr.
species
Kelleria villosa
Type: S. Berggren, ii. 1874, Mount Torlesse (K).

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villosa

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Plant forming low mats or patches up to 30 cm. or more diam. Main stems and branches prostrate and rooting, up to 4 mm. or more diam.; branchlets up to 4 cm. long, densely clad in subappressed greyish to white hairs. Lvs densely imbricate, erect or ascending, often incurved, 2.5-4 × 0·5-1 mm., narrow-subulate, slightly concavo-convex, obtuse to subacute, subcoriac., nerves distinct but hardly prominent, margins ciliate, apex strongly penicillate. Fls 3-4 per head; scales 8, distinct. Per. tube ± appressed-pilose within, funnelform, 3 mm. long; lobes 2-2.5 mm. long, oblong to ovate-oblong. Ovary ovoid, pilose at least at apex. Fr. ovoid, 1·5 mm. long.

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Drapetes villosa (Bergg.) Cheeseman
Kelleria villosa Berggr.
Kelleria villosa Berggr.
Kelleria villosa Berggr.
Kelleria villosa Berggr.

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New Zealand
Otago Land District
Kelleria villosa Berggr.
New Zealand
Kelleria villosa Berggr.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Kelleria villosa Berggr.
New Zealand
Otago Land District

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typification
Type: S. Berggren, ii. 1874, Mount Torlesse (K).

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1 January 2000
18 June 2024
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