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Acaena minor (Hook.f.) Allan

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Acaena minor (Hook.f.) Allan, Fl. New Zealand 1, 363 (1961)
Acaena minor (Hook.f.) Allan

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Endemic
Wild
New Zealand
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(Hook.f.) Allan
Hook.f.
Allan
1961
363
ICN
species
Acaena minor

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minor

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Acaena minor (Hook.f.) Allan

Main stems stout, creeping and rooting, up to 3 dm. or more long; branchlets ascending, c. 1-3 cm. long, pilose. Lvs c. 3 cm. long, 11-13-foliolate, lflts closely placed, petiole clad in long silky hairs, stipules 3-4 mm. long, trifid. Upper lflts c. 5 mm. long, serrate-dentate, subsessile to sessile, glab. above, densely pilose on veins below, teeth penicillate. Terminal lflt on petiolule c. 1 mm. long. Scapes c. 3 cm. long, appressed pilose, nude or with one or more bracts. Heads c. 1·5 cm. diam. including spines, bractlets linear. Cupules obconic, substipulate, c. 2 mm. long, pilose. Spines purplish, c. 4 mm. long, subequal. Sepals green, c. 2 mm. long, very shortly clawed, obovate-oblong, glab. to papillate above, pilose on midvein below. Stamens 2, anthers purple; stigma plumose.

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Acaena minor (Hook.f.) Allan
Acaena minor (Hook.f.) Allan
Acaena minor (Hook.f.) Allan
Acaena minor (Hook.f.) Allan
Acaena minor (Hook.f.) Allan
Acaena minor (Hook.f.) Allan
Acaena sanguisorbae var. minor Hook.f.
Acaena minor (Hook.f.) Allan

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Acaena minor (Hook.f.) Allan
New Zealand
Southland Land District

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8e7b540e-826e-473b-b1fc-57c8aa8f9725
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
28 June 2007
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