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Cordyline kaspar W.R.B.Oliv.

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W.R.B.Oliv.
W.R.B.Oliv.
1956
381, t. 68
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Cordyline kaspar W.R.B.Oliv.
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Cordyline kaspar

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Cordyline kaspar W.R.B.Oliv.

Small widely-branched tree to c. 4 m high; trunk single or several. Leaves c. 60-65 × 5.5-7 cm, narrowed above base to short petiole; midrib obscure, nerves fine. Panicle lax, to 80 cm long. Flowers white or yellowish; segments 5-6 mm long. Berry white.

Cordyline kaspar W.R.B.Oliv.

Small widely branched tree to c. 4 m. tall; trunk single or several. Lvs c. 60–65 × 5.5–7 cm., mostly rather stiff though drooping in age, narrowed above base into short, hardly channelled petiole of c. ½ lamina-width or less; lamina similar on both surfaces, widest above middle; midrib obscure adaxially, more prominent abaxially, widened towards base; nerves fine, subequal, ± parallel but meeting midrib at appreciable angle. Peduncle to 1 cm. or more diam. Panicle to 80 cm. long, broad, branched to second or third order, branches well spaced; lower bracts green and foliaceous, sts lobed (perhaps only accidentally?); ultimate racemes c. 10–20 cm. long, c. 2 cm. diam. with fls on; axes visible between fls. Fls white or yellowish; per. c. 5–6 mm. long, tube c. 2 mm. long; tepals patent. Stamens c. = tepals; filaments rather long-connate, the free portion as broad as the anther and not much longer. Stigma shortly trifid. Fr. c. 4 mm. diam., globose, white. Seeds c. 3.5 mm. diam., glossy, deeply notched on one side. 2n = 38.

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Cordyline kaspar W.R.B.Oliv.
Cordyline kaspar W.R.B.Oliv.
Cordyline kaspar W.R.B.Oliv.
Cordyline kaspar W.R.B.Oliv.
Cordyline kaspar W.R.B.Oliv.
Cordyline kaspar W.R.B.Oliv.
Cordyline kaspar W.R.B.Oliv.
Cordyline kaspar W.R.B.Oliv.

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Cordyline kaspar W.R.B.Oliv.
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a710da97-ff61-42e9-9889-c43cb7480eb8
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1 January 2000
18 May 2006
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