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Epilobium melanocaulon Hook.

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Endemic
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New Zealand
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Hook.
Hook.
1848
ICN
Epilobium melanocaulon Hook.
species
Epilobium melanocaulon

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melanocaulon

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Epilobium melanocaulon Hook.

Stock hard, woody, emitting several to many erect stems up to 35 cm. long, simple or sparingly branched, almost black, pubescent on angles; branchlets slender, wiry; lines of pubescence 2-4. Lvs opp., floral alt., approximate, sessile or very shortly petioled. Lamina lanceolate to linear-oblong, often apiculate, (6)-10-12-(18) × ± 3-4 mm., coriac., glab., us. stained dark red; margins rather deeply, coarsely toothed. Fls ± 5 mm. diam.; calyx deeply cleft; lobes ± 4 mm., narrow-ovate, acute to acuminate; petals white to pink, ± 5 mm. long, bifid. Capsules glab., slender, purplish to almost black, 10-25 mm. long; peduncles ± 5 mm. long. Seeds papillose.

Epilobium melanocaulon Hook.

n = 18
2n = 36
n = 18

Epilobium melanocaulon Hook.

Crisp herb, branched at the base and sometimes also above, 10-30 cm tall, from a stout taproot. Stems usually purplish black, sometimes green, with dense strigillose hairs in lines. Lamina of lf narrow-elliptic to elliptic, 3-12-(20) × 1-4-(6) mm. Floral tube 0.2-0.6 mm deep, glabrous. Petals white, flushed pink after pollination, 5-6.5 × 2.3-3 mm. Capsules glabrous, 1.8-3.8 cm long; fruiting pedicel 0-0.9 cm long.

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Epilobium melanocaulon Hook.
Epilobium melanocaulon Hook.
Epilobium melanocaulon Hook.
Epilobium melanocaulon Hook.
Epilobium melanocaulon Hook.
Epilobium melanocaulon Hook.
Epilobium melanocaulon Hook.
Epilobium melanocaulon Hook.
Epilobium melanocaulon Hook.
Epilobium melanocaulon Hook.
Epilobium melanocaulon Hook.
Epilobium melanocaulon Hook.
Epilobium melanocaulon Hook.
Epilobium melanocaulon Hook.
Epilobium melanocaulon Hook.
Epilobium melanocaulon Hook.
Epilobium melanocaulon Hook.
Epilobium melanocaulon Hook. var. melanocaulon
Epilobium melanocaulon Hook.
Epilobium melanocaulon var. polyclonum (Hausskn.) Cheeseman
Epilobium melanocaulon Hook.
Epilobium melanocaulon var. typica Cockayne & Allan
Epilobium melanocaulon Hook.
Epilobium melanocaulon var. viride Cockayne & Allan
Epilobium melanocaulon Hook.
Epilobium polyclonum Hausskn.
Epilobium melanocaulon Hook.

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Epilobium melanocaulon Hook.
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c6081a7a-1709-4d8e-b268-b7aebe0279b1
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
15 May 2008
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