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Geniostoma ligustrifolium A.Cunn.

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Geniostoma ligustrifolium A.Cunn., Ann. Nat. Hist. 2: 46 (1839)
Geniostoma ligustrifolium A.Cunn.

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New Zealand
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A.Cunn.
A.Cunn.
1839
46
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Geniostoma ligustrifolium A.Cunn.
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Geniostoma ligustrifolium

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ligustrifolium

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Geniostoma ligustrifolium A.Cunn.

Glab. bushy shrub up to ± 3 m. tall; branches slender, brittle. Lvs on petioles 5-10 mm. long; lamina us. membr., pale green above, paler below (sts subglaucous); (2.5)-5-7-(9) × (1·5)-2-3-(4) cm.; ovate to broad- to elliptic-ovate, rather abruptly narrowed to acuminate apex. Infl. a cyme up to c.3 cm. diam., pedicels slender, bracted, 3-5-(10) mm. long. Calyx ± 3 mm. long; lobes ovate, acuminate, ciliolate. Corolla ± 6 mm. long, greenish to clear white; tube short, lobes at length spreading, pubescent on upper surface, ciliolate, acuminate. Anther-connective produced, lobes divergent. Ovary subglobose, style short, stigma 2-lobed. Capsule ± 5 mm. diam., 5-7-(10) mm. long, splitting into 2 mucronate valves. Seeds ∞, 1-2 mm. long, testa greyish, minutely pitted, long remaining attached to apex.

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Geniostoma ligustrifolium A.Cunn.
Geniostoma ligustrifolium A.Cunn.
Geniostoma ligustrifolium A.Cunn.
Geniostoma ligustrifolium A.Cunn.
Geniostoma ligustrifolium Cunn.
Geniostoma ligustrifolium A.Cunn.
Geniostoma ligustrifolium A.Cunn.
Geniostoma ligustrifolium Cunn.
Geniostoma ligustrifolium A.Cunn.
Geniostoma ligustrifolium A.Cunn.

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Geniostoma ligustrifolium A.Cunn.
New Zealand
Gisborne Land District
Geniostoma ligustrifolium A.Cunn.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Geniostoma ligustrifolium A.Cunn.
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Geniostoma ligustrifolium A.Cunn.
New Zealand
Taranaki Land District
Geniostoma ligustrifolium A.Cunn.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District

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95a906ab-dd94-47ea-b87d-d03cbd62ed7b
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Names_Plants
13 March 2002
15 January 2014
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