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Cordyline obtecta (Graham) Baker

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(Graham) Baker
Graham
Baker
1875
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species
Cordyline obtecta

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obtecta

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Cordyline obtecta (Graham) Baker

n = 19
2n = 38
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.
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 baueri Hook.f.
Cordyline obtecta (Graham) Baker
Cordyline kaspar W.R.B.Oliv.
Cordyline obtecta (Graham) Baker
Cordyline obtecta (Graham) Baker
Cordyline obtecta (Graham) Baker
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Cordyline obtecta (Graham) Baker
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Cordyline obtecta (Graham) Baker
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Cordyline obtecta (Graham) Baker
Dracaena obtecta Graham
Cordyline obtecta (Graham) Baker

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
NZ Botanical Region
Indigenous, non-endemic
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New Zealand
Political Region

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New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Cordyline obtecta (Graham) Baker
Australia
Cordyline obtecta (Graham) Baker
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Cordyline obtecta (Graham) Baker
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District

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b58405ad-8126-494d-b72e-86dcea99a672
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Names_Plants
13 March 2002
18 May 2006
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