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Claytonia australasica Hook.f.

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Claytonia australasica Hook.f. in Hooker, Icon. Pl. 3, t. 293 (1840)

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Hook.f.
Hook.f.
1840
t. 293
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Claytonia australasica Hook.f.
species
Claytonia australasica
LECTOTYPE (fide Nilsson 1966): Claytonia australasica n .sp. 160 Mr Gunn Hampshire Hills , 1837.

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australasica

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Claytonia australasica Hook.f.

Glab. ± succulent perennial herb with slender to rather stout branching stems creeping, rooting at nodes; forming dense to loose patches up to 15 cm. or more across; stems often expanded and cormose at intervals, roots often bearing pale cormose submoniliform starch-rich swellings up to 2 cm. long. Lvs on filiform petioles (0·5)-1-(3) cm. long, expanded into a scarious sheath below, alt. or in alt. clusters; lamina (0·5)-1-5 cm. long, filiform to narrow-linear to narrow-spathulate, obtuse to subacute. Fls up to 2 cm. diam., solitary or paired or in few-fld racemes, on slender peduncles 1-3 cm. long. Sepals 2, enclosing petals in bud, ovate-oblong to suborbicular, ± 3 mm. diam.; petals us. white, sts rose, 6-8 mm. long, obovate. Capsule ± globose; seeds us. 3, ± 1·5 mm. diam, lenticular, smooth, glossy, dark brown to black.

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Claytonia australasica Hook.f.
Claytonia australasica Hook.f.
Claytonia australasica Hook.f.
Claytonia australasica Hook.f.

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Claytonia australasica Hook.f.
New Zealand

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typification
LECTOTYPE (fide Nilsson 1966): Claytonia australasica n .sp. 160 Mr Gunn Hampshire Hills , 1837.

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13 March 2002
4 October 2011
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