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Stellaria alsine Grimm

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Grimm
Grimm
1767
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Stellaria alsine Grimm
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Stellaria alsine

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Stellaria alsine Grimm

Perennial. Stems weak, ascending, 4-angled, glabrous, (8)-10-20-(50) cm long. Lvs green, sessile except on overwintering vegetative shoots, connate in pairs, lanceolate to oblanceolate to narrow-oblong, becoming linear-lanceolate above, tapering gradually to acute apex and glabrous or ciliate base, (5)-8-12-(25) × 2-5-(8) mm; margins usually closely undulate when dry; marginal vein ± distinct. Infl. axillary, cymose, lax, (1)-3-10-flowered. Bracts narrow-lanceolate, not keeled, scarious with green midrib, glabrous, 1.5-3 mm long. Pedicels slender, erecto-patent to patent, glabrous, 8-18 mm long. Sepals narrow-triangular, acute, 3-veined, (2)-2.5-3 mm long; margins scarious, glabrous. Petals < sepals. Stamens 10. Capsule narrow-ovoid, = sepals. Seeds red-brown, c. 0.5 mm long, with very short tubercles.

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Stellaria alsine Grimm
New Zealand
Stellaria alsine Grimm
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Stellaria alsine Grimm
New Zealand
Gisborne Land District
Stellaria alsine Grimm
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Stellaria alsine Grimm
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Stellaria alsine Grimm
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Stellaria alsine Grimm
New Zealand
Westland Land District

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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
12 April 2007
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