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Dactylanthus Hook.f.

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Dactylanthus Hook.f., Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 22: 425, t. 75 (1859)
Dactylanthus Hook.f.

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Endemic
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New Zealand
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Hook.f.
Hook.f.
Transactions of the Linnean Society of London
1859
22: 425, t. 75
ICN
Dactylanthus Hook.f.
genus
Dactylanthus

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Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Santalales
Mystropetalaceae
Dactylanthus

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

Dactylanthus Hook.f.

Dioec. root-parasite. Spadices aggregated in terminal capitula surrounded by scale lvs. Fls densely crowded; ♂ with 0-2-(4) filamentous per.-segs, and us. single stamen with short filament and one adnate bilobed anther; ♀ with per. adnate to ovary, with subulate processes, ovary 2-loculed, style filiform, stigma simple; fr. a hard-walled nut, one-seeded. Rhizome ± hemispherical, attached over broad irregular surface to expanded end of host root; shoots ∞, arising irregularly, lvs entire, sessile. One sp. endemic to N.Z.

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Dactylanthus Hook.f.
Dactylanthus Hook.f.
Allan, H.H. (1961)
Dactylanthus Hook.f.
Dactylanthus Hook.f.
Ju, H-J.; Hu, J-M. et al. (2015)
Mystropetalaceae
Dactylanthus Hook.f.
Dactylanthus
Mabberley, D.J. (2008)
Dactylanthus Hook.f.

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1 January 2000
23 February 2017
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