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Eschscholzia Cham.

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Eschscholzia Cham. in Nees von Essenbeck, Horae Phys. Berol. [Nees] 73-74, T. XV (1820)
Eschscholzia Cham.
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New Zealand
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Cham.
Cham.
Nees von Essenbeck, C.G.D. (ed.) 1820: Horae Physicae Berolinenses. Adolphi Marcus, Bonn.
1820
73-74, T. XV
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Eschscholzia Cham.
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Eschscholzia

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Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Ranunculales
Papaveraceae
Eschscholzia

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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.

Eschscholzia Cham.

Annual to perennial herbs with watery sap. Lvs dissected, glabrous, glaucous; segments linear. Fls solitary or in lax leafy cymes. Sepals 2, entire, not horned, joined in the bud to form a hood pushed off by the opening petals. Petals 4, not crumpled in bud, orange to yellow, sometimes white or red. Stigma with 4-6 long spreading lobes; style very short. Capsule linear, 1-celled, opening from below by 2 valves which separate from the placentae. Seeds ellipsoid or circular, without aril.

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Eschscholzia Cham.
Eschscholzia
Mabberley, D.J. (2008)
Eschscholzia Cham.
Papaveraceae
Eschscholzia Cham.
Eschscholzia
Webb, C.J.; Sykes, W.R.; Garnock-Jones, P.J. (1988)

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Eschscholzia Cham.
New Zealand
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Eschscholzia Cham.
New Zealand
Hawke's Bay Land District
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9808ad3c-9b42-40a3-b47f-8aeb5c811519
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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
24 September 2015
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