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Alnus viridis (Chaix) DC.

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Alnus viridis (Chaix) DC. (1804)
Alnus viridis (Chaix) DC.

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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(Chaix) DC.
Chaix
DC.
1804
ICN
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Alnus viridis

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viridis

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Alnus viridis (Chaix) DC.

Shrub 0.75-2 m high, multi-stemmed and tending to layer. Shoots and lvs ± glandular-viscid when young. Winter buds sessile, dark. Petiole 1-2 cm long. Lamina to c. 7 × 6 cm, broadly ovate, broadly elliptic, or suborbicular, hairy beneath on veins, at least when young, irregularly serrate; veins in 5-6 pairs; base broadly cuneate to rounded; apex acute. Buds sessile, enclosing ♀ catkins in winter. ♂ catkins few at shoot apices, 3-6 cm long, pendulous, opening at lf flush; bracts c. 1.5 mm long, broadly ovate or suborbicular, often reddish where exposed. ♀ catkins all pedunculate, to 6 in loose racemes, 7-10 mm long at anthesis, narrow-cylindric, glandular-scaly. Cones 6-10 mm long, broadly ellipsoid when open, with horizontal bracts. Nutlet c. 2 mm long, broadly ellipsoid; wing as wide as nut.

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Alnus viridis (Chaix) DC.
Alnus viridis (Chaix) DC.
Alnus viridis (Chaix) DC.
Alnus viridis (Chaix) DC.
Alnus viridis (Chaix) DC.

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Alnus viridis (Chaix) DC.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Alnus viridis (Chaix) DC.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Alnus viridis (Chaix) DC.
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Alnus viridis (Chaix) DC.
New Zealand
Southland Land District

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24 June 2002
17 July 2008
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