Claytonia australasica Hook.f.
Details
Claytonia australasica Hook.f. in Hooker, Icon. Pl. 3, t. 293 (1840)
Nomenclature
Hook.f.
Hook.f.
1840
t. 293
ICN
Claytonia australasica Hook.f.
species
Claytonia australasica
Classification
Subordinates
Descriptions
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.
Taxonomic concepts
Claytonia australasica Hook.f.
Claytonia australasica Hook.f.
Collections
Notes
typification
LECTOTYPE (fide Nilsson 1966): Claytonia australasica n .sp. 160 Mr Gunn Hampshire Hills , 1837.
Metadata
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scientific name
Names_Plants
13 March 2002
4 October 2011