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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

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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(Kunth) P.H.Raven
Kunth
P.H.Raven
1964
1963
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species
Ludwigia peploides

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peploides

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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.

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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

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Ludwigia peploides (Kunth) P.H.Raven
Cook Islands
Ludwigia peploides (Kunth) P.H.Raven
Cook Islands
Rarotonga

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b90888e9-3b0c-4dd5-b6a9-e223a647b73c
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
27 September 2007
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