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Montia erythrophylla (Heenan) Heenan

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Montia erythrophylla (Heenan) Heenan, New Zealand J. Bot. 45: 438 (2007)
Montia erythrophylla (Heenan) Heenan

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Endemic
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New Zealand
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(Heenan) Heenan
Heenan
Heenan
2007
438
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species
Montia erythrophylla

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erythrophylla

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Montia erythrophylla (Heenan) Heenan

2n = c. 85
2n = c. 85
Herb, up to 20 cm diam., forming loose to compact mats. Leaves up to 35 × 3.2 mm, spathulate; lamina narrowly elliptic to elliptic; adaxial and abaxial surfaces red-brown to red, usually dull; adaxial surface ± flat or sometimes slightly concave; abaxial surface ± flat or sometimes slightly convex; apex obtuse; base attenuate; petiole usually distinct but grading into lamina base; old leaves orange to orange-yellow. Involucral leaves 3.1–3.5 × 3.2–3.5 mm, red-brown; lateral fold absent or indistinct; apex obtuse. Flowers 9.5–14 mm diam. Tepals 4.8–7.9 × 2.3–4.6 mm, broadly elliptic to obovate, white in bud and at maturity—usually flushed pink, not overlapping; apex obtuse, rarely notched; claw weakly differentiated. Nectary green. Filaments 2.8–3.8 mm long, slightly > or ± = ½ tepal length, white. Anthers 0.7–0.8 × 0.3–0.4 mm, pink to pink-red. Ovary 0.9–1.2 × 0.8–1.0 mm, obovoid, red-green to brown-green; sutures not prominent. Style 2.4–3.1 mm long; white with base flushed green. Stigmatic branches 1.2–1.6 mm long, white, straight prior to spreading. Capsule 2.4–2.7 × 1.7– 2.1 mm. Seeds 1.4–1.7 × 1.2–1.6 mm, slightly to moderately rugose, dark brown, red-brown, to black. FL Nov–Jan; FT Dec–Mar.
A N. calycina foliis crassioribus, rubro-brunneis vel rubris, tepalis plerumque roseo-tinctis, filamentis brevioribus, ovario rubro-vel brunneo-tincto, et habitatione in rudere stabile e particulas subtiles composito distinguenda.

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Montia erythrophylla (Heenan) Heenan
Montia erythrophylla Heenan (Heenan)
Montia erythrophylla (Heenan) Heenan
Montia erythrophylla Heenan (Heenan)
Montia erythrophylla (Heenan) Heenan
Montia erythrophylla Heenan (Heenan)
Montia erythrophylla (Heenan) Heenan
Montia erythrophylla Heenan (Heenan)
Montia erythrophylla (Heenan) Heenan
Montia erythrophylla (Heenan) Heenan
Montia erythrophylla Heenan (Heenan)
Montia erythrophylla (Heenan) Heenan
Montia erythrophylla (Heenan) Heenan
Montia erythrophylla Heenan (Heenan)
Montia erythrophylla (Heenan) Heenan
Neopaxia erythrophylla Heenan
Montia erythrophylla (Heenan) Heenan

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Montia erythrophylla (Heenan) Heenan
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c375b282-d8b4-4433-801f-244856cdee0a
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Names_Plants
27 August 2007
7 February 2023
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