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Acaena saccaticupula Bitter
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Acaena saccaticupula Bitter, Biblioth. Bot. 74: 173 (1911)
Acaena saccaticupula Bitter
Nomenclature
Bitter
Bitter
1911
173
ICN
Acaena saccaticupula Bitter
species
Acaena saccaticupula
Classification
Descriptions
Acaena saccaticupula Bitter
Main stems creeping and rooting, up to 3 dm. or more long, branches procumbent to ascending, up to 15 cm. long, glab. or nearly so. Lvs up to 5 cm. or more long, narrow in outline, c. 1 cm. wide, 9-15-foliolate, glab., glaucescent on both surfaces; stipules scarious, c. 4 mm. long, entire; deeply obtusely dentate, obovate-cuneate, terminal lflt with petiolule up to 5 mm. long. Scape up to 25 cm. long, with one to several pairs of bracts, glab. or nearly so, purple. Bracts occ. with axillary cupules. Heads up to 2 cm. diam., purplish, bractlets linear, ciliate. Cupules c. 5 mm. long, glab., golden brown, saccate, spines 4, barbed, purplish, us. with several minute spinelets. Sepals 4, greenish, suffused with purple, especially marginally, sparingly hairy to glab. Stamens 2-4, anthers purple. Stigma plumose. Achenes up to 4 mm. long, fusiform.
Acaena saccaticupula Bitter
2n = 126
2n = 84?
2n = 126
Acaena saccaticupula Bitter
Stoloniferous herb; decumbent stems 1-1.7 mm diam., < 30 cm long; erect stems < 5 cm long. Lvs 0.9-13 cm long, the length c. 6× width; stipules entire or 3-(5)-fid, with glandular hairs on margin of sheath; leaflets 11-15, obovate or deltoid, 3-10 × 2.5-8 mm, with 5-8, obtuse, deeply incised teeth, glaucous on both surfaces, glabrous or sparsely hairy on veins and margin of lower surface. Scape 5-11 cm long at flowering, 9-30 cm long at fruiting, red, glabrous; capitulum 6-9 mm diam. at flowering, < 15 mm diam. (including spines) at fruiting; florets c. 80-100; sepals 4; stamens 2; anthers dark red; style 1, dark red; achene 1. Fr. obconic, c. 3 × 1.5-2 mm, glabrous or sparsely hairy, with dilated ribs; spines 4, red, 2-4 mm long, barbed, with minute spines occasionally present between main ones.
Taxonomic concepts
Acaena hirsutula var. glabricupula Bitter
Acaena saccaticupula Bitter
Acaena saccaticupula Bitter
Acaena saccaticupula Bitter
Acaena saccaticupula Bitter
Acaena saccaticupula Bitter
Acaena saccaticupula Bitter
Acaena saccaticupula Bitter
Acaena saccaticupula Bitter
Acaena saccaticupula Bitter
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c6c3256c-60ed-41e7-b40a-6e9ac765c869
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
28 June 2007