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Argemone ochroleuca Sweet

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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Sweet
Sweet
1828
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Argemone ochroleuca Sweet
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Argemone ochroleuca

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ochroleuca

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Argemone ochroleuca Sweet

Annual herb. Stems ± stout, decumbent to erect, sparsely spiny or sometimes without spines, 20-60 cm tall. Rosette lvs few, withering and falling early; cauline lvs persistent. All lvs sessile, glaucous, pale near veins, tapering gradually to base; lamina ovate to obovate, pinnatifid, 7-15 × 2-5 cm, coarsely toothed; each tooth tipped with a long yellowish spine. Fls solitary or in lax leafy cymes, closely subtended by 2-3 leaflike bracts. Sepals entire, spiny, but without lateral spines, glaucous, with a spine-tipped horn near apex. Petals 2-3 cm long, narrow-ovate, cream. Style 2-3 mm long; stigma magenta. Capsule ellipsoid, spiny, 1.5-3 × 0.7-1.5 cm, dehiscing by 4-(6) valves in distal ⅓. Seeds globose, reticulate, very dark brown, c. 1.5 mm long.

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Argemone mexicana var. ochroleuca (Sweet) Lindl.
Argemone ochroleuca Sweet
Argemone ochroleuca Sweet
Argemone ochroleuca Sweet

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Argemone ochroleuca Sweet
New Zealand
Argemone ochroleuca Sweet
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Argemone ochroleuca Sweet
New Zealand
Gisborne Land District
Argemone ochroleuca Sweet
New Zealand
Hawke's Bay Land District
Argemone ochroleuca Sweet
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
Argemone ochroleuca Sweet
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Argemone ochroleuca Sweet
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Argemone ochroleuca Sweet
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Argemone ochroleuca Sweet
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Argemone ochroleuca Sweet
New Zealand
Taranaki Land District
Argemone ochroleuca Sweet
New Zealand
Wellington Land District

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1 January 2000
18 November 2015
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