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Leycesteria Wall.

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Leycesteria Wall., Fl. Ind. (Carey & Wallich ed.) 2, 181 (1824)
Leycesteria Wall.
Names_Fungi record source Leycesteria

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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Webb, C.J.; Sykes, W.R.; Garnock-Jones, P.J. (1988)

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Wall.
Wall.
Roxburgh, W. 1824: Flora Indica; or Descriptions of Indian Plants, by the late William Roxburgh. Edited by William Carey, D.D., to which are added descriptions of plants more recently discovered by Nathaniel Wallich. Edition 2. Mission Press, Serampore.
1824
181
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Leycesteria Wall.
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Leycesteria

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Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Dipsacales
Caprifoliaceae
Leycesteria

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Webb, C.J.; Sykes, W.R.; Garnock-Jones, P.J. 1988: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. IV. Naturalised Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms, Dicotyledons. Botany Division DSIR, Christchurch.

Leycesteria Wall.

Deciduous or semi-evergreen shrubs. Stems remaining green except when very old, hollow. Lvs simple, entire or lobed, stipulate or exstipulate. Fls in terminal pendulous spikes, whorled, not fragrant, in the axils of large bracts usually > fls. Calyx 5-lobed; lobes unequal. Corolla 5-lobed, regular, funnelform. Stamens 5, ± exserted. Ovary 5-8-celled. Style slender; stigma capitate. Fr. a berry, with many small seeds.

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Leycesteria Wall.
Leycesteria
Mabberley, D.J. (2008)
Leycesteria Wall.
Caprifoliaceae
Leycesteria Wall.
Leycesteria Wall.
Webb, C.J.; Sykes, W.R.; Garnock-Jones, P.J. (1988)

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Leycesteria Wall.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
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1 January 2000
2 September 2008
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