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Kelleria dieffenbachii (Hook.) Endl.

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Kelleria dieffenbachii (Hook.) Endl. (1847)
Kelleria dieffenbachii (Hook.) Endl.
Heads, M.J. 1990: A revision of the genera Kelleria and Drapetes (Thymelaeaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 3: 595–652.

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Endemic
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New Zealand
Political Region

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(Hook.) Endl.
Hook.
Endl.
1847
ICN
Drapetes dieffenbachii Hook.
species
Kelleria dieffenbachii

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Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Malvales
Thymelaeaceae
Kelleria
dieffenbachii

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Allan, H.H. 1961: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. I. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledones. Government Printer, Wellington.

Drapetes dieffenbachii Hook.

Plant forming dense to lax patches up to 25 cm. or more diam.; stems and branches prostrate and rooting, up to 3 mm. diam.; branchlets approximate, prostrate or ascending, glabrate, up to 5 cm. long. Lvs erect to appressed, sts incurved, 2.5-3·5 mm. long, obtuse, strongly concavo-convex, coriac., tapering from base 0·5-1 mm. wide; nerves prominent to obscure, margins ciliate, apex densely penicillate. Fls 3-8 per head; scales 4, sts 2-lobed or separated into 4 closely approximate pairs. Per. tube sparsely to densely pilose, 1·5-2.5 mm. long; lobes 1·5-2 mm. long, broad- to ovate-oblong, densely to sparsely pilose. Ovary ovoid, apex penicillate. Fr. ovoid, 1·5 mm. long.
Dawson, M.I. 2008: Index of chromosome numbers of indigenous New Zealand vascular plants.

Kelleria dieffenbachii (Hook.) Endl.

2n = 18

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Drapetes dieffenbachii Hook.
Drapetes dieffenbachii Hook.
Allan, H.H. (1961)
Drapetes dieffenbachii Hook.
Drapetes dieffenbachii Hook.
Heads, M.J. (1990)
Kelleria dieffenbachii (Hook.) Endl.
Drapetes macrantha Colenso
Drapetes macrantha Colenso
Heads, M.J. (1990)
Kelleria dieffenbachii (Hook.) Endl.
Kelleria dieffenbachii (Hook.) Endl.
Kelleria dieffenbachii (Hook.) Endl.
Dawson, M.I. (2008)
Kelleria Endl.
Kelleria dieffenbachii (Hook.) Endl.
Kelleria dieffenbachii (Hook.) Endl.
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R. et al. (2013)
Kelleria dieffenbachii (Hook.) Endl.
Kelleria dieffenbachii (Hook.) Endl.
Kelleria dieffenbachii (Hook.) Endl.
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R. et al. (2018)
Kelleria dieffenbachii (Hook.) Endl.
Kelleria dieffenbachii (Hook.) Endl.
Kelleria dieffenbachii (Hook.) Endl.
Heads, M.J. (1990)
Kelleria dieffenbachii (Hook.) Endl.

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Drapetes dieffenbachii Hook.
New Zealand
Southland Land District
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Kelleria dieffenbachii (Hook.) Endl.
New Zealand
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Kelleria dieffenbachii (Hook.) Endl.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
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Kelleria dieffenbachii (Hook.) Endl.
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
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Kelleria dieffenbachii (Hook.) Endl.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
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Kelleria dieffenbachii (Hook.) Endl.
New Zealand
Otago Land District
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Kelleria dieffenbachii (Hook.) Endl.
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
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Kelleria dieffenbachii (Hook.) Endl.
New Zealand
Southland Land District
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Kelleria dieffenbachii (Hook.) Endl.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
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Kelleria dieffenbachii (Hook.) Endl.
New Zealand
Westland Land District
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bc7ec9b7-8cc3-4913-9aef-b6e058eff283
scientific name
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1 January 2000
16 February 2006
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