Gunnera prorepens Hook.f.
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Gunnera prorepens Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 66 (1852)
Gunnera prorepens Hook.f.
Nomenclature
Hook.f.
Hook.f.
1852
66
ICN
Gunnera prorepens Hook.f.
species
Gunnera prorepens
Classification
Synonyms
Descriptions
Stolons, often below surface, branched, up to ± 3 dm. long. Lvs on slender, ± reddish petioles up to 8 cm. long. Lamina broad-oblong to broad-elliptic, 20-25 × 14-17 mm., occ. more; glab. or nearly so, membr., dull brownish green, ± sinuate, crenulate; apex rounded, base truncate to subcordate. Scapes unisexual, ± 10 cm. long. ♂ subsessible, rather distant, drooping, on very slender axis withering after anthesis. ♀ in "cluster" stage at anthesis, up to ± 7 mm. long, lobes 4, inner oblong, outer obovate; axis rather stout, ± fleshy, pale yellow to white; drupe 3-4 mm. long, obconic to pyriform, patent to drooping, shortly pedicelled, yellow, rather close-set.
Gunnera prorepens Hook.f.
Stolons, often below surface, branched, up to 4 dm. long. Lvs on slender glabrate petioles up to 10 cm. or more long. Lamina brownish to almost purplish green, membr., 10-30-(50) × 10-25-(40) mm., ovate to ovate-oblong, rounded at apex, rounded to sts truncate or subcordate at base, not or obscurely 2-3-lobed, glab. or nearly so; margins crenate to subentire, ± sinuate. Infl. up to 6 cm. or more long. ♂ with very short tube, calyx-lobes minute; petals spathulate, pilose, ± 2.5 mm. long; staminal filaments very short. ♀ rather close-set, subsessile; bracts ovate-lanceolate, c. 1·2 mm. long; styles 3-5 mm. long. Drupes on elongated scape, patent to drooping, obconic to nearly globose, red to purplish, 3-4 × 2-3 mm.
Gunnera prorepens Hook.f.
2n = 34
Gunnera prorepens Hook.f.
Dioecious herb. Lvs 2.5-14 cm long; lamina ovate, shallowly cordate at base, not lobed, shallowly crenate to ± entire, membranous, usually ± glabrous. Infructescence exposed above lvs. Drupes usually densely clustered on stalk, sometimes more scattered, shortly obconic to globose, red-purple to red or yellow; flesh closely attached to seed.
Taxonomic concepts
Gunnera prorepens Hook.f.
Gunnera prorepens Hook.f.
Gunnera prorepens Hook.f.
Gunnera prorepens Hook.f.
Gunnera prorepens Hook.f.
Gunnera prorepens Hook.f.
Gunnera prorepens Hook.f.
Gunnera prorepens Hook.f.
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Names_Plants
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25 October 2006