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Pygmea Hook.f.

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Hook.f.
Hook.f.
1864
217
illegitimate
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Pygmea Hook.f.
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Pygmea
Type taxon: Pygmaea ciliolata Hook.f. (designated for Pygmaea Hook.f. by Oliver 1944)

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Pygmea Hook.f.

Fls solitary, each subtended by a pair of connate bracts, sessile or sub-sessile in lf-axils near tips of branches. Calyx 5-(6)-lobed. Corolla small, salverform, shortly lobed, or larger, broadly funnelform and deeply lobed; lobes 5-(6). Stamens 2, inserted near throat of corolla, filaments, short, anthers large. Capsule with septum across narrowest diam., deeply 2-lobed, laterally compressed and broadest at tip, turgid below, flattened on anterior and posterior faces, splitting loculicidally and septicidally into 4 valves, included in calyx. Seeds us. many, not strongly flattened. Small densely pulvinate perennial herbs or prostrate rooting shrubs; lvs opp., sessile, shortly connate at base, closely quadrifariously or irregularly imbricate, entire, ± ciliate or hairy. Genus of a few spp. endemic to N.Z. Type sp. (selected by W. R. B. Oliver in Rec. Dom. Mus., Wellington 1, 1944, 231):

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Pygmea Hook.f.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District

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Type taxon: Pygmaea ciliolata Hook.f. (designated for Pygmaea Hook.f. by Oliver 1944)

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13 March 2002
26 August 2022
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