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Epilobium alsinoides A.Cunn.

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Epilobium alsinoides A.Cunn., Ann. Nat. Hist. 3: 32 (1839)
Epilobium alsinoides A.Cunn.
Raven, P.H.; Raven, T. E. 1976: The Genus Epilobium (Onagraceae) in Australasia: a Systematic and Evolutionary Study. New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Bulletin 216: 1–321.
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New Zealand
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A.Cunn.
A.Cunn.
Cunningham, A. 1839: Florae insularum Novae Zelandiae precursor; or a specimen of the botany of the islands of New Zealand. Annals of Natural History 3: 29–34.
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Epilobium alsinoides A.Cunn.
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Epilobium alsinoides
Original material (according to the protologue): "New Zealand (Northern Island). Between the Waimate and Keri-Keri Mission Stations, bay of Islands. – 1833, R. Cunningham". Type (fide Raven, Raven, 1976: 186): "Between the Waimate and Kerikeri Mission Stations, Bay of Islands, North Auckland, New Zealand, 1833, Richard Cunningham 540 (K. Isotype, WELT)". KW specimen: "Epilobium alsinoides | C. | In the Country between | Waimaté & Keri-Keri | N. Zealand. | 1833 RC.", KW001003054. Figure 1 (upper specimen). Syntype (or isolectotype?).

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Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Myrtales
Onagraceae
Epilobium
alsinoides

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

Epilobium alsinoides A.Cunn.

Stems us. several, rooting at base, ascending above, ± branched, up to 30 cm. long, us. shorter, pale green, pubescent, becoming ± glab.; branchlets very slender. Lvs opp., floral alt. on petioles ± 1 mm. long. Lamina orbicular to broad-ovate, 5-12 × 4-5 mm., subcoriac., glab.; margins entire or minutely, remotely denticulate. Fls ± 5 mm. diam.; calyx ± = petals, lobes ovate-lanceolate; petals white. Capsules 20-40 mm. long, uniformly grey-pubescent; peduncles (15)-25-50-(70) mm. long, pubescent. Seeds papillose.
Webb, C.J.; Sykes, W.R.; Garnock-Jones, P.J. 1988: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. IV. Naturalised Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms, Dicotyledons. Botany Division DSIR, Christchurch.

Epilobium alsinoides A.Cunn.

Low herb 1-36 cm tall, usually much-branched, with numerous basal leafy stolons. Stems usually strigillose, rarely with erect hairs, the hairs confined in some populations to the lines decurrent from the margins of petioles. Lamina of lf linear to ovate, 0.5-2 × 0.1-1.5 cm. Floral tube 0.5-1.5 mm deep, glabrous or somewhat strigillose outside. Petals white, sometimes flushed pink after pollination, 2.8-6 × 1.8-4.5 mm. Capsule glabrous to densely strigillose, 1.4-4 cm long; fruiting pedicel 1-10 cm long.

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Epilobium alsinoides A.Cunn.
Epilobium alsinoides A.Cunn.
Allan, H.H. (1961)
Epilobium alsinoides A.Cunn.
Epilobium alsinoides A.Cunn.
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R. et al. (2013)
Epilobium alsinoides A.Cunn.
Epilobium alsinoides A.Cunn.
Epilobium alsinoides A.Cunn.
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R. et al. (2018)
Epilobium alsinoides A.Cunn.
Epilobium alsinoides A.Cunn.
Epilobium alsinoides A.Cunn.
Raven, P.H.; Raven, T. E. (1976)
Epilobium alsinoides A.Cunn.
Epilobium alsinoides A.Cunn.
Epilobium alsinoides A.Cunn.
Webb, C.J.; Sykes, W.R.; Garnock-Jones, P.J. (1988)

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Epilobium alsinoides A.Cunn.
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typification
Original material (according to the protologue): "New Zealand (Northern Island). Between the Waimate and Keri-Keri Mission Stations, bay of Islands. – 1833, R. Cunningham". Type (fide Raven, Raven, 1976: 186): "Between the Waimate and Kerikeri Mission Stations, Bay of Islands, North Auckland, New Zealand, 1833, Richard Cunningham 540 (K. Isotype, WELT)". KW specimen: "Epilobium alsinoides | C. | In the Country between | Waimaté & Keri-Keri | N. Zealand. | 1833 RC.", KW001003054. Figure 1 (upper specimen). Syntype (or isolectotype?).
Mosyakin, S.L.; de Lange, P.J.; Antonenko, S.I.; Klimovych, N.B. 2020: Types and other historical specimens of Allan and Richard Cunningham's taxa of Epilobium and Fuchsia (Onagraceae) from New Zealand in the Turczaninow Herbarium at the National Herbarium of Ukraine (KW). Ukrainian Botanical Journal 77(4): 249–269.

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96dc9394-d9db-424b-8213-c5e7c485f94a
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1 January 2000
15 May 2008
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