Ludwigia peploides (Kunth) P.H.Raven
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Ludwigia peploides (Kunth) P.H.Raven, Reinwardtia 6 (1964 [1963])
Ludwigia peploides (Kunth) P.H.Raven
Nomenclature
(Kunth) P.H.Raven
Kunth
P.H.Raven
1964
1963
ICN
species
Ludwigia peploides
Classification
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Descriptions
Ludwigia peploides (Kunth) P.H.Raven
Herb, forming large patches; stems creeping or floating, rooting at nodes, with pneumatophores sometimes present below water; flowering stems ascending, with patent hairs or more rarely glabrate. Lvs alternate; petiole 0.5-3 cm long, glabrous or somewhat hairy. Lamina 2-8 × 0.7-3 cm, elliptic, oblanceolate or obovate, glabrous except for midrib near base; base cuneate to attenuate; apex obtuse to rounded. Fls solitary, 4-5-merous; pedicels 1.5-4.5 cm long at anthesis, generally with patent hairs. Sepals 6-8 mm long, narrow-triangular or lanceolate-oblong, scarcely accrescent; apex emarginate. Petals 1.5-1.7 mm long, bright yellow. Stamens 8 or 10; filaments unequal. Style c. 4 mm long, stout, hairy. Stigma slightly 4-lobed. Capsule 2-2.7 cm long, narrow-cylindric, ribbed, woody, glabrous or glabrate. Seeds firmly embedded in cubes of woody endocarp c. 1.5 mm thick, uniseriate in each locule.
Taxonomic concepts
Jussiaea peploides Kunth
Ludwigia peploides (Kunth) P.H.Raven
Ludwigia peploides (Kunth) P.H.Raven
Ludwigia peploides (Kunth) P.H.Raven
Ludwigia peploides (Kunth) P.H.Raven
Ludwigia peploides (Kunth) P.H.Raven
Ludwigia peploides (Kunth) P.H.Raven
Ludwigia peploides (Kunth) P.H.Raven
Ludwigia peploides (Kunth) P.H.Raven
Collections
Notes
editorial
N.Z. plants are referable to subsp. montevidensis
Metadata
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1 January 2000
27 September 2007