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Misopates orontium (L.) Raf.

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(L.) Raf.
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Raf.
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Misopates orontium

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orontium

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Annual herb; stems to c. 50 cm tall, often not branched. Lvs subsessile, 20-60-(80) × 1-5-(8) mm, linear to narrow-oblong, glabrous or somewhat glandular-hairy; base attenuate. Fls in long, lax, glandular-hairy terminal racemes; peduncle often < flowering part. Bracts 10-27 mm long, resembling lvs but usually narrow-linear. Calyx 10-18 mm long, divided almost to base; lobes linear, of unequal length, glandular-hairy. Corolla 12-18 mm long to apex of upper lip, pink with darker veins and white inside pouch, glandular-hairy or glabrate outside; tube < lobes of calyx, < 5 mm wide; upper lip emarginate; middle lobe of lower lip c. 2 mm long, almost triangular, truncate, concealed by lateral lobes until late anthesis. Capsule 7-9 mm long, broad-ovate, densely glandular-hairy. Seeds c. 1 mm long, black, keeled on 1 side, papillate on the other and with a prominent depression surrounded by a raised sinuate border.

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Misopates orontium (L.) Raf.
Australia
Misopates orontium (L.) Raf.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Misopates orontium (L.) Raf.
New Zealand
Hawke's Bay Land District
Misopates orontium (L.) Raf.
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
Misopates orontium (L.) Raf.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Misopates orontium (L.) Raf.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Misopates orontium (L.) Raf.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Misopates orontium (L.) Raf.
United Kingdom

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9149fe0e-c4cf-4159-b904-760469dad3a9
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13 March 2002
3 December 2014
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