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Alectryon Gaertn.

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Alectryon Gaertn., Fruct. Sem. Pl. 217, t. 46 (1788)
Alectryon Gaertn.
Names_Fungi record source Alectryon

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region

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Gaertn.
Gaertn.
Gaertner, J. 1788: De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum. Vol. 1. Stuttgart.
1788
217, t. 46
ICN
Alectryon Gaertn.
genus
Alectryon

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Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Sapindales
Sapindaceae
Alectryon

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Allan, H.H. 1961: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. I. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledones. Government Printer, Wellington.

Alectryon Gaertn.

Fls perfect to unisexual in panicles; calyx 4-5-lobed, hairy within; petals 0; disk 8-lobed; stamens 5-8. Ovary obliquely obcordate, compressed, 1-celled; style short, stigma 2-3-lobed to simple; ovule solitary. Capsule ± woody, subglobose, crested; seeds arillate, cots spirally coiled. Trees with alt., pinnate, exstipulate lvs. About 20 spp. of Hawaii, Pacific Is, New Guinea, Australia. The N.Z. spp. endemic.

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Alectryon Gaertn.
Alectryon Gaertn.
Allan, H.H. (1961)
Alectryon Gaertn.
Alectryon Gaertn.
Dawson, M.I. (2008)
Sapindaceae
Alectryon Gaertn.
Alectryon
Mabberley, D.J. (2008)
Alectryon Gaertn.
Sapindaceae

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8f91d8dc-7933-4f29-8504-72bea7c1c6e6
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
5 July 2007
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