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Kelleria dieffenbachii (Hook.) Endl.

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Kelleria dieffenbachii (Hook.) Endl., Gen. Pl. Suppl. [Endlicher] Suppl. 4, 61 (1848)
Kelleria dieffenbachii (Hook.) Endl.

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Endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region

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Endl.
Hook.
(Hook.) Endl.
1848
61
ICN
species
Kelleria dieffenbachii

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dieffenbachii

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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.

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Drapetes dieffenbachii Hook.
Kelleria dieffenbachii (Hook.) Endl.
Drapetes macrantha Colenso
Kelleria dieffenbachii (Hook.) Endl.
Drapetes tasmanica Hook.f.
Kelleria dieffenbachii (Hook.) Endl.
Kelleria dieffenbachii (Hook.) Endl.
Kelleria dieffenbachii (Hook.) Endl.
Kelleria dieffenbachii (Hook.) Endl.
Kelleria dieffenbachii (Hook.) Endl.
Kelleria dieffenbachii (Hook.) Endl.
Kelleria dieffenbachii (Hook.) Endl.
Kelleria dieffenbachii (Hook.) Endl.
Kelleria dieffenbachii (Hook.) Endl.
Kelleria dieffenbachii (Hook.) Endl.
Kelleria dieffenbachii (Hook.) Endl.
Kelleria dieffenbachii (Hook.) Endl.
Kelleria tasmanica (Hook.f.) Berggren
Kelleria dieffenbachii (Hook.) Endl.

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Kelleria dieffenbachii (Hook.) Endl.
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bc7ec9b7-8cc3-4913-9aef-b6e058eff283
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
18 June 2024
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