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Centrolepis pallida (Hook.f.) Cheeseman

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Centrolepis pallida (Hook.f.) Cheeseman, Man. New Zealand Fl. 757 (1906)
Centrolepis pallida (Hook.f.) Cheeseman

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Endemic
Wild
New Zealand
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(Hook.f.) Cheeseman
Hook.f.
Cheeseman
1906
757
ICN
species
Centrolepis pallida
From Latin pallidus (pale), a reference to the pale coloured tufts.

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Annual, fine-leaved, loose tufts, not cushion-forming, 1-2 cm high, half-buried in sand. Leaves to 2 cm long, green or red, filiform, crowded at base. Flowering stems slightly < leaves, bright red. Glume-like bracts each enclosing 1- (2) pseudanthia.

Centrolepis pallida (Hook.f.) Cheeseman

Dense, pale or bright green, moss-like perennial cushions. Leaves to 9 mm long, distichous, closely imbricate, stiff, glabrous. Flowering stems c. = leaves. Glume-like bracts each enclosing 1 or 0 pseudanthia.
Annual, fine-lvd, loose tufts, not cushion-forming, 1–2 cm. high, half-buried in sand. Roots ∞, fine, longer than upper part of plant. Lvs 0.5–2 cm. long, < 0.5 mm. wide, green or red-coloured, crowded at stem base; sheaths transparent, glab., not much wider than lamina. Flowering stems slightly < lvs, c. 0.5 mm. wide, bright red. Glume-like bracts 2, ± opp., ovate, papillose, the outer mucronate, almost completely enclosing the smaller obtuse one; each bract enclosing 1–(2) pseudanthia; hyaline scales 0. ♂ 1 or 0 in a pseudanthium, us. only 1 within each glume-like bract. ♀ 2–6, superposed in 2 series; styles connate at the base.

Centrolepis pallida (Hook.f.) Cheeseman

Dense, pale or bright green, moss-like cushions. Roots comparatively thick, but < 0.5 mm. diam. Stems 1.5–4 cm. long. Lvs 6–9 mm. long, < 0.5 mm. wide, distichous, equitant at the base, closely imbricate up the stem, lamina stiff, erect, glab., subulate, laterally compressed or occ. channelled, narrowed to an acute or occ. shortly acicular tip; lf-sheaths c. ½ length of lamina, very pale cream, membr., without ligule or auricles. Flowering stems c. = lvs. Floral bracts 2, ± opp., unequal in length, the lower larger. Pseudanthia, 1 in each floral bract, or 1 bract without pseudanthium; ♂ 1 only, in the lowermost pseudanthium, at maturity the filament elongated excessively and the anther far exserted; ♀ 1–3–(4) in each pseudanthium; hyaline scales 0. Seed ± 0.5 mm. long, oblong-obovate, apiculate at one end.

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Alepyrum pallidum (Hook.f.) Hook.f.
Centrolepis pallida (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
Alepyrum pallidum (Hook.f.) Hook.f.
Centrolepis pallida (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
Centrolepis minima Kirk
Centrolepis pallida (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
Centrolepis pallida (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
Centrolepis pallida (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
Centrolepis pallida (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
Centrolepis pallida (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
Centrolepis pallida (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
Centrolepis pallida (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
Centrolepis pallida (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
Centrolepis pallida (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
Centrolepis pallida (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
Centrolepis pallida (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
Centrolepis pallida (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
Centrolepis pallida (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
Centrolepis pallida (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
Centrolepis pallida (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
Centrolepis pallida (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
Centrolepis pallida (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
Centrolepis pallida (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
Centrolepis pallida (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
Centrolepis pallida (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
Gaimardia minima sensu Cheeseman
Centrolepis pallida (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
Gaimardia pallida Hook.f.
Centrolepis pallida (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
Gaimardia pallida Hook.f.
Centrolepis pallida (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
Pseudalepyrum minimum (Kirk) Dandy
Centrolepis pallida (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
Pseudalepyrum pallidum (Hook.f.) Dandy
Centrolepis pallida (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
Pseudalepyrum pallidum (Hook.f.) Dandy
Centrolepis pallida (Hook.f.) Cheeseman

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Centrolepis pallida (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
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Etymology
From Latin pallidus (pale), a reference to the pale coloured tufts.

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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
9 June 2022
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