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Colobanthus apetalus (Labill.) Druce

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Colobanthus apetalus (Labill.) Druce (1917)
Colobanthus apetalus (Labill.) Druce
Allan, H.H. 1961: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. I. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledones. Government Printer, Wellington.

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region

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Druce
Labill.
(Labill.) Druce
1917
ICN
Spergula apetala Labill.
species
Colobanthus apetalus

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Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Caryophyllales
Caryophyllaceae
Colobanthus
apetalus

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Allan, H.H. 1961: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. I. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledones. Government Printer, Wellington.

Colobanthus apetalus (Labill.) Druce

Plant simple or several to many tufted. Branches mostly very short. Lvs grassy, erect, flexuous or recurved, blade 10-25 mm. long, linear to very narrow-linear, with short apicula. Peduncles about = lvs, becoming longer; fls fairly broad, sepals 5, 3-4 mm. long, broad and partly membr. below, tapering to short apicula; capsule 5-valved, valves almost = sepals when mature. Seeds with low rounded papillae.

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Colobanthus apetalus (Labill.) Druce
Colobanthus apetalus (Labill.) Druce
Allan, H.H. (1961)
Colobanthus apetalus (Labill.) Druce
Colobanthus apetalus (Labill.) Druce
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R. et al. (2013)
Colobanthus apetalus (Labill.) Druce
Colobanthus apetalus (Labill.) Druce
Colobanthus apetalus (Labill.) Druce
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R. et al. (2018)
Colobanthus apetalus (Labill.) Druce
Spergula apetala Labill.
Spergula apetala Labill.
Allan, H.H. (1961)
Colobanthus apetalus (Labill.) Druce

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Colobanthus apetalus (Labill.) Druce
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Colobanthus apetalus (Labill.) Druce
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Eastern
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Colobanthus apetalus (Labill.) Druce
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North-western
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Colobanthus apetalus (Labill.) Druce
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Ruahine-Cook
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Colobanthus apetalus (Labill.) Druce
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Volcanic Plateau
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editorial
"Vegetatively, at least in N.Z., specimens here attributed to C. apetalus and C. affinis are often indistinguishable, although they differ constantly in shape and relative size of sepals. C. affinis has the more restricted distribution here, mostly in high rainfall areas. These two spp. were for a long time included under C. billardieri Fenzl (Ann. Wien Mus. 1, 1836, 49), a name which was nomenclaturally superfluous when published, since both Sagina crassifolia D'Urv. and Spergula apetala Labill. were quoted as synonyms" (Allan 1961).
Allan, H.H. 1961: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. I. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledones. Government Printer, Wellington.

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scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
12 April 2007
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