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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.

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Endemic
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New Zealand
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Hook.f.
Hook.f.
1852
66
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Gunnera prorepens Hook.f.
species
Gunnera prorepens

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prorepens

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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.

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.

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Gunnera prorepens Hook.f.
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Gunnera prorepens Hook.f.
Gunnera prorepens Hook.f.

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Gunnera prorepens Hook.f.
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1 January 2000
25 October 2006
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