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Zostera muelleri Asch.

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Zostera muelleri Asch. (1867)
Zostera muelleri Asch.

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Indigenous, non-endemic
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New Zealand
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2 (or more) different entities in New Zealand.

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Asch.
Asch.
1867
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Zostera muelleri Asch.
species
Zostera muelleri

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muelleri

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Zostera muelleri Asch.

Rhizome slightly compressed, 1–2 mm. diam.; internodes c. 1–2 cm. long. Lf-sheath 2–4 cm. long, fibrous in age, the broad, membr. margins inflexed and each terminating in an erect rounded auricle; lamina 5–30 cm. × 1–2 mm.; primary nerves 3, interstitial nerves (4)–5–(6), cross veins us. at ± regular, rather long intervals and nearly all extending from median to marginal nerve, producing a pattern of long oblongs. Erect stems narrow and flattened, the subfloral ("peduncular") internode 1–6 cm. × 0.5–1 mm. Spathe-like sheath 1.5–2.5 cm. × 2–2.5 mm. (folded width), its margins squarely truncate at the top and its terminating lamina 3–8 cm. × 1.5–2 mm. Spadix often shorter than spathe; retinacula us. 3 on each side, broadly obliquely ovate, c. 1–1.5 × 1 mm. and 2–2.5 mm. apart. Stamens and carpels closely packed, carpels rarely > 6 and anther-sacs about twice their number, all sloping obliquely inwards and upwards. Achene elliptic-oblong, c. 2.5 × 1 mm.; seed smooth, yellow. 2n = 24.

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Zostera muelleri Asch.
Zostera muelleri Asch.
Zostera muelleri Asch.
Zostera muelleri Asch.
Zostera muelleri Asch.

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Zostera muelleri Asch.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Zostera muelleri Asch.
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District

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95a84e17-9f2d-4c3e-a0b7-a8cbb6eebfd5
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Names_Plants
13 March 2002
17 July 2009
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