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Arctium minus (Hill) Bernh.

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New Zealand
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(Hill) Bernh.
Hill
Bernh.
1800
ICN
species
Arctium minus

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minus

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Arctium minus (Hill) Bernh.

Plants openly branched, 1-1.5 m tall. Stems grooved, with sparse to dense cobwebby eglandular and subsessile glandular hairs, rarely glabrous or farinose. Basal lvs deltoid to broadly deltoid, green and sparsely hairy above, whitish and densely felted beneath, (15)-25-40-(55) × (10)-13-30-(35) cm; base cordate; apex subacute to obtuse; margin crenate to bluntly dentate with apiculate vein endings; petioles hollow. Upper lvs similar to basal, becoming smaller. Infl. racemose; peduncles 0-1-(3) cm long. Capitula (12)-15-20 × (14)-20-30 mm. Involucral bracts straw yellow, greenish or purplish, glabrous or with sparse to dense cobwebby hairs; margins with short, stiff, tapered, forwardly directed denticles, at least on the innermost bracts. Florets = or > involucral bracts; corolla reddish purple. Achenes 5-7 mm long; pappus 1.5-3.5 mm long.

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Arctium minus (Hill) Bernh.
Arctium minus (Hill) Bernh.
Arctium minus (Hill) Bernh.
Arctium minus (Hill) Bernh.
Arctium minus (Hill) Bernh.
Arctium minus (Hill) Bernh.
Arctium minus (Hill) Bernh.
Arctium minus (Hill) Bernh.
Arctium minus (Hill) Bernh.
Arctium minus (Hill) Bernh.
Arctium minus (Hill) Bernh.
Lappa minor Hill.
Arctium minus (Hill) Bernh.

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Arctium minus (Hill) Bernh.
France
Arctium minus (Hill) Bernh.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Arctium minus (Hill) Bernh.
New Zealand
Gisborne Land District
Arctium minus (Hill) Bernh.
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
Arctium minus (Hill) Bernh.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Arctium minus (Hill) Bernh.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Arctium minus (Hill) Bernh.
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Arctium minus (Hill) Bernh.
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Arctium minus (Hill) Bernh.
New Zealand
Southland Land District
Arctium minus (Hill) Bernh.
New Zealand
Taranaki Land District
Arctium minus (Hill) Bernh.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Arctium minus (Hill) Bernh.
New Zealand
Westland Land District

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b48e9b5c-59aa-445e-be64-9c8a77765902
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
16 March 2016
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