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Veronica pulvinaris (Hook.f.) Cheeseman

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Veronica pulvinaris (Hook.f.) Cheeseman, Man. New Zealand Fl. 540 (1906)
Veronica pulvinaris (Hook.f.) Cheeseman

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Endemic
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New Zealand
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(Hook.f.) Cheeseman
Hook.f.
Cheeseman
1906
540
ICN
species
Veronica pulvinaris

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pulvinaris

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Perennial herb from stout woody stock; stems woody, rooting, giving off ∞ slender erect branches us. tightly compacted into dense, hoary, grey-green cushion 2-4 cm. high and up to 10 cm. or more diam., sts laxer and forming small patch; branches again much branched towards tips, 3-5 mm. diam. including lvs. Lvs closely irregularly imbricate, us. ± loosely spreading, linear-oblong to linear-spathulate, 2.5-4 × ± 1 mm., obtuse to subacute; margins and upper part of inner surface sparsely hispid with long, coarse, stiff, white hairs, outer surface sparsely hispid in upper part or glab. except for tuft at tip. Bracts 3-4 mm. long, linear, very similar to calyx-lobes. Calyx 3-4 mm. long, deeply divided into 5-(6) linear lobes 2.5-3·5 mm. long; lobes hispid on margins and outer surface especially towards tip. Corolla white, 5-6-(8) mm. long, salverform; tube ± ═ or much > calyx; lobes 5-6, 1·5-2.5 mm. long, broadly obovate-oblong, rounded to subacute. Capsule c. 2.5-3 mm. long, hairy at apex at least when young.

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Chionohebe pulvinaris (Hook.f.) B.G.Briggs & Ehrend.
Veronica pulvinaris (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
Chionohebe pulvinaris (Hook.f.) B.G.Briggs & Ehrend.
Veronica pulvinaris (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
Pygmea ciliolata var. pumila Ashwin
Veronica pulvinaris (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
Pygmea ciliolata var. pumila Ashwin
Veronica pulvinaris (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
Pygmea pulvinaris Hook.f.
Veronica pulvinaris (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
Pygmea pulvinaris Hook.f.
Veronica pulvinaris (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
Veronica ciliolata var. pumila (Ashwin) Garn.-Jones
Veronica pulvinaris (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
Veronica ciliolata var. pumila (Ashwin) Garn.-Jones
Veronica pulvinaris (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
Veronica pulvinaris (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
Veronica pulvinaris (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
Veronica pulvinaris (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
Veronica pulvinaris (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
Veronica pulvinaris (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
Veronica pulvinaris (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
Veronica pulvinaris (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
Veronica pulvinaris (Hook.f.) Cheeseman

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Veronica pulvinaris (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
New Zealand
Veronica pulvinaris (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Veronica pulvinaris (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
Veronica pulvinaris (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Veronica pulvinaris (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
New Zealand
Southland Land District
Veronica pulvinaris (Hook.f.) Cheeseman
New Zealand
Westland Land District

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25 May 2009
6 January 2023
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