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Cordyline indivisa (G.Forst.) Endl.

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Cordyline indivisa (G.Forst.) Endl., 1: 162 (No. 766) (1836)
Cordyline indivisa (G.Forst.) Endl.

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Endemic
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New Zealand
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(G.Forst.) Endl.
G.Forst.
Endl.
1836
162 (No. 766)
ICN
species
Cordyline indivisa

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indivisa

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Cordyline indivisa (G.Forst.) Endl.

2n = 38
2n = 38
2n = 38

Cordyline indivisa (G.Forst.) Endl.

Plant to c. 8 m high; stems massive, rather sparingly branched. Leaves to 1-2 m × 10-15 cm, broadly ensiform, narrowed above base to short petiole; midrib and several nerves conspicuous, reddish. Panicle tightly compact, 60-160 cm long. Flowers long-pedicelled, ± fleshy; segments 7-8 mm long. Berry bluish.

Cordyline indivisa (G.Forst.) Endl.

Plant to c. 8 m. tall; stems massive, rather sparingly branched. Lvs to 1–2 m. ×10–15 cm., broadly ensiform, drooping only in age, narrowed above base to a short petiole to c. ⅓ lamina-width; lamina glaucous abaxially where stomata are very ∞; midrib broad and conspicuous, often reddish; nerves unequal, especially adaxially, the stronger ones often reddish like midrib, meeting midrib at definite angle; margins laxly revolute. Peduncle stout, short, ± hidden. Panicle to c. 60–160 × 30 cm., tightly compact, us. (possibly always) with only first order branching from stout central axis; lower bracts broad and heavy; racemes c. 10–20 cm. long, c. 2 cm. diam. with fls on; axes hidden by crowded fls; pedicels to 2–3 mm. long, longer than in other spp. Fls inclined to be fleshy; per. c. 7–8 mm. long, tepals shortly connate, strongly recurved. Stamens c. = tepals; filaments narrow. Stigma narrow-capitate. Fr. c. 6 mm. diam., globose, bluish. Seeds c. 2 mm. long, shining, 2 sides flat and one convex. 2n = 38.

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Cordyline hectori Colenso
Cordyline indivisa (G.Forst.) Endl.
Cordyline hookeri Kirk
Cordyline indivisa (G.Forst.) Endl.
Cordyline indivisa (G.Forst.) Endl.
Cordyline indivisa (G.Forst.) Endl.
Cordyline indivisa (G.Forst.) Endl.
Cordyline indivisa (G.Forst.) Endl.
Cordyline indivisa (G.Forst.) Endl.
Cordyline indivisa (G.Forst.) Endl.
Cordyline indivisa (G.Forst.) Endl.
Cordyline indivisa (G.Forst.) Endl.
Cordyline indivisa (G.Forst.) Endl.
Cordyline indivisa (G.Forst.) Endl.
Cordyline indivisa (G.Forst.) Endl.
Cordyline indivisa (G.Forst.) Endl.
Cordyline indivisa (G.Forst.) Endl.
Dracaena indivisa G.Forst.
Cordyline indivisa (G.Forst.) Endl.

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Cordyline indivisa (G.Forst.) Endl.
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9284aa4f-6d65-45fb-8890-f0d600d354a9
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
17 July 2009
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