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Vinca minor L.

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Vinca minor L.
Vinca minor L.

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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Vinca minor L.
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Vinca minor

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minor

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Vinca minor L.

Stems prostrate, mat-forming, trailing or creeping, glabrous or nearly so. Petioles 0.5-4 mm long, glandular, sometimes minutely ciliate. Lamina mostly 2-5 × 1-2 cm, elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, glabrous or nearly so; base broadly cuneate or rounded; apex obtuse. Pedicels 1.7-3 cm long, very slender. Calyx 3-4 mm long; lobes broadly lanceolate, subacute. Corolla purple or violet with white central eye, usually double or semi-double; tube 7-8 mm long; limb 1.5-2 cm diam.; lobes obliquely obovate, truncate at apex. Anthers c. as wide as long, but most stamens transformed into petals. Follicles not seen.

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Vinca minor L.
New Zealand
Vinca minor L.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Vinca minor L.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Vinca minor L.
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Vinca minor L.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District

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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
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