Muehlenbeckia axillaris (Hook.f.) Walp.
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Muehlenbeckia axillaris (Hook.f.) Walp., Ann. Bot. Syst. (Walpers) Vol. 1: 552 (1848)
Nomenclature
(Hook.f.) Walp.
Hook.f.
Walp.
1848
Vol. 1: 552
invalidly published
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Muehlenbeckia axillaris
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Descriptions
Muehlenbeckia axillaris (Hook.f.) Walp.
Prostrate or occ. straggling shrub forming dense to open patches up to 1 m. or more across; stems and branches subterranean or creeping on surface, rooting at nodes where substratum favourable; branchlets slender, decumbent, ± pubescent. Lvs on slender petioles (1)-2-3-(5) mm. long; ochreae 2-3 mm. long, obliquely truncate. Lamina (2)-3-5-(10) mm. long or in diam., coriac., broad- to ovate-oblong to suborbicular, sts retuse; dark green above, paler below. Fls ± 4 mm. diam., solitary or paired (rarely up to 5 in a fascicle), axillary on slender pedicels. Tepals united to halfway, lobes narrow-triangular. ♀ with fimbriate stigmas; tepals white and succulent or dry in fr. (both forms may occur on same plant.) Fr. ± 3 × 1·75 mm., trigonous, somewhat glossy, black.
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1 January 2000
2 February 2017