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Montigena novae-zelandiae (Hook.f.) Heenan

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Threat status: Declining

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Montigena novae-zelandiae (Hook.f.) Heenan, New Zealand J. Bot. 36: 43 (1998)
Montigena novae-zelandiae (Hook.f.) Heenan

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Endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region

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Heenan
Hook.f.
(Hook.f.) Heenan
1998
43
ICN
species
Montigena novae-zelandiae

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novae-zelandiae

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Subherbaceous perennial with aerial stems arising from a slender, spreading, branching rhizome. Aerial parts ± clad in appressed hairs. Lvs imparipinnate with 6-10 or rarely more pairs of opp., subsessile lflts; stipules broadly deltoid, subacute to obtuse, c. 2 mm. long. Lflts c. 7 × 4 mm., obovate-oblong, margins slightly thickened. Racemes up to 5-(8)-fld, c. 2 cm. long; bracts narrow-lanceolate, c. 4 mm. long, pedicels c. 3 mm. long. Calyx c. 5-6 mm. long, campanulate, segs c. 3 mm. long, narrow, bibracteolate at base, pilose within and without. Standard ecallose, 7-8 × 8-10 mm., slightly retuse; claw 2 mm. long, veins evident. Wings 6-7 × 3-4 mm., oblong, claw 2 mm. long. Keel c. 6 mm. long, obliquely obovate-oblong, not pouched. Ovary invested with appressed hairs without, cobwebby within, gynophore stout, very short, style bearded in upper third, curved. Pods with persistent calyx and style-base, about 10-seeded, up to 2 × 1 cm., sutures strongly ridged, valves thinly coriac., transverse veins evident. Seeds c. 3·5 × 3 mm., brown to dark brown, radicle prominent.

Montigena novae-zelandiae (Hook.f.) Heenan

2n = 32

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Montigena novae-zelandiae (Hook.f.) Heenan
Montigena novae-zelandiae (Hook.f.) Heenan
Montigena novae-zelandiae (Hook.f.) Heenan
Montigena novae-zelandiae (Hook.f.) Heenan
Montigena novae-zelandiae (Hook.f.) Heenan
Montigena novae-zelandiae (Hook.f.) Heenan
Montigena novae-zelandiae (Hook.f.) Heenan
Montigena novae-zelandiae (Hook.f.) Heenan
Montigena novae-zelandiae (Hook.f.) Heenan
Montigena novae-zelandiae (Hook.f.) Heenan
Montigena novae-zelandiae (Hook.f.) Heenan
Montigena novae-zelandiae (Hook.f.) Heenan
Montigena novae-zelandiae (Hook.f.) Heenan
Montigena novae-zelandiae (Hook.f.) Heenan
Swainsona novae-zelandiae Hook.f.
Montigena novae-zelandiae (Hook.f.) Heenan
Swainsona novae-zelandiae var. glabra G.Simpson
Montigena novae-zelandiae (Hook.f.) Heenan

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Montigena novae-zelandiae (Hook.f.) Heenan
New Zealand
Montigena novae-zelandiae (Hook.f.) Heenan
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Montigena novae-zelandiae (Hook.f.) Heenan
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
Montigena novae-zelandiae (Hook.f.) Heenan
New Zealand
Otago Land District
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District

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1 January 2000
17 January 2025