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Hedera L.

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Hedera L., Sp. Pl. 202 (1753)
Hedera L.
Names_Fungi record source Hedera

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Exotic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region
Webb, C.J.; Sykes, W.R.; Garnock-Jones, P.J. (1988)

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L.
L.
Linnaeus, C. 1753: Species Plantarum. Impensis Laurentii Salvii, Stockholm.
1753
202
ICN
Hedera L.
Hedera helix L.
genus
Hedera

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Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Apiales
Araliaceae
Hedera

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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.

Hedera L.

Woody climbers, often becoming arborescent at maturity, the scandent stage with numerous aerial rootlets. Lvs alternate, petiolate, simple, palmately lobed or not lobed, exstipulate; lf form usually differing between flowering and non-flowering shoots. Umbels solitary or in terminal racemes; bracts minute or 0; calyx entire or 5-toothed; petals 5, greenish; stamens 5; ovary 5-locular; styles connate into a cone with stigmas sessile at apex. Fr. subglobose, berry-like.

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Hedera L.
Hedera
Mabberley, D.J. (2008)
Hedera L.
Araliaceae
Hedera L.
Hedera L.
Webb, C.J.; Sykes, W.R.; Garnock-Jones, P.J. (1988)

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Exotic
Cultivated
New Zealand
Political Region
Wilcox, M.; Bradshaw, C.; Cameron, E. (2004)
Hedera helix recorded

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Hedera L.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
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Hedera L.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
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Hedera L.
New Zealand
Westland Land District
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9965f405-7201-40f6-b0f3-91a05a7e9d6d
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
12 October 2021
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