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Hydrocotyle robusta Kirk

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Threat status: Not threatened

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Hydrocotyle robusta Kirk, Stud. Fl. New Zealand 189 (1899)
Hydrocotyle robusta Kirk

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Endemic
Wild
New Zealand
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Kirk
Kirk
1899
189
ICN
Hydrocotyle robusta Kirk
species
Hydrocotyle robusta

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robusta

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Stems ± 3 mm. diam., decumbent to suberect. Lvs on short petioles 2-6 cm. long, retrorsely pilose towards sinus. Lamina pilose on both surfaces, 20-25-(30) mm. diam.; lobes 5-7, us. very to rather shallow, us. again shallowly lobulate, member., pale green; margins crenulate to denticulate. Sinus us. deep, narrow. Peduncles rather stout to slender, 1-3 cm. long. Umbels c. 8-12-fld. Rays very short, occ. up to 5 mm. long. Fruiting heads up to 1 cm. diam.; frs c. 2-3 mm. diam., dull brown, very turgid, glab.; mericarps grooved in face (often obscurely so), faintly keeled.

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Hydrocotyle novae-zeelandiae var. robusta (Kirk) Cheeseman
Hydrocotyle novae-zeelandiae var. robusta (Kirk) Cheeseman
Hydrocotyle robusta Kirk
Hydrocotyle robusta Kirk
Hydrocotyle robusta Kirk
Hydrocotyle robusta Kirk
Hydrocotyle robusta Kirk
Hydrocotyle robusta Kirk
Hydrocotyle robusta Kirk
Hydrocotyle robusta Kirk
Hydrocotyle robusta Kirk
Hydrocotyle robusta Kirk
Hydrocotyle robusta Kirk
Hydrocotyle robusta Kirk

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Hydrocotyle robusta Kirk
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editorial
We do not follow Cheeseman's and Allan's treatment of H. robusta as a variety of H. novae-zeelandiae.

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ae44e34d-4b0c-4d2b-82b9-9b57538450bc
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13 March 2002
26 September 2007
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