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Isoetes kirkii A.Braun

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Isoetes kirkii A.Braun, Monatsber. Königl. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 649 (1869)
Isoetes kirkii A.Braun

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Endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region

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A.Braun
A.Braun
1869
649
ICN
Isoetes kirkii A.Braun
species
Isoetes kirkii
Named in honour of Thomas Kirk (1828–1898), Chief Conservator of State Forests in New Zealand (1863–1898), author of The Forest Flora of New Zealand (1889) and The Students’ Flora of New Zealand and the Outlying Islands (1899), and who first collected Isoetes in New Zealand.

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kirkii

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Isoetes kirkii A.Braun

Submerged, axis short, deeply 3-lobed; lvs up to 30, 5 cm. to 3 dm. long, filiform, pale green. Sporangia broadly oblong, c. 3 mm. long. Megaspores white, studded with minute, unequal tubercles; microspores very ∞, minute.

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Isoetes aff. kirkii (CHR 247118A; Lake Omapere)
Isoetes kirkii A.Braun
Isoetes kirkii A.Braun
Isoetes kirkii A.Braun
Isoetes kirkii A.Braun
Isoetes kirkii A.Braun
Isoetes kirkii A.Braun
Isoetes kirkii A.Braun
Isoetes kirkii A.Braun
Isoetes kirkii A.Braun
Isoetes kirkii A.Braun
Isoetes kirkii A.Braun
Isoetes kirkii A.Braun
Isoetes kirkii A.Braun
Isoetes kirkii A.Braun
Isoetes kirkii A.Braun
Isoetes kirkii A.Braun

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Isoetes kirkii A.Braun
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typification
Holotype: New Zealand, Waikato, 1869, T. Kirk s.n., com. Dr. F. v. Mueller, B 20 0107710b!
Etymology
Named in honour of Thomas Kirk (1828–1898), Chief Conservator of State Forests in New Zealand (1863–1898), author of The Forest Flora of New Zealand (1889) and The Students’ Flora of New Zealand and the Outlying Islands (1899), and who first collected Isoetes in New Zealand.

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a813dc3d-6018-4349-a665-83021630024d
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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
29 August 2018
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