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Oenothera stricta Ledeb. ex Link

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Oenothera stricta Ledeb. ex Link, Enum. Hort. Berol. Alt. 1, 377 (1821)
Oenothera stricta Ledeb. ex Link

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New Zealand
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Ledeb. ex Link
Link
1821
377
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Oenothera stricta Ledeb. ex Link
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Oenothera stricta

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stricta

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Oenothera stricta Ledeb. ex Link

Annual or biennial (possibly sometimes short-lived perennial) herb, with stout taproot. Stems to c. 75 cm tall, not or sparingly branched, white-pilose and with short glandular hairs in upper part. Rosette lvs numerous, 0 at flowering, sessile, 3-15 × 0.4-1 cm, narrow-linear to narrow-oblanceolate, glabrous excluding margins; midrib pale; margins undulate, ciliolate, sparsely denticulate, ± undulate. Cauline lvs similar but usually shorter and to 1.6 cm wide towards base, the upper lvs often hairy below. Fls solitary, sessile, crepuscular but lasting well into the next day; subtending lf sheath-like at base and obscuring lower part of ovary, with hairs as on stem. Floral tube 2-3 cm long, narrow-cylindric, with hairs as on stem. Buds narrowly oblong, erect. Sepals 1.7-2.7 cm long, ± reddish, with hairs as on stem; apices mucronate, erect or divergent. Petals 2.5-3.5 cm long, broad-obovate, yellow, ageing to orange-red. Style exserted by 1.5-2 cm. Capsule 2-2.5 cm long, widening slightly in upper 1/2, sometimes curved, ± reddish, slightly ribbed, with long and short hairs. Seeds 1-1.7 mm long, irregular but somewhat ellipsoid, finely reticulate.

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Oenothera odorata sensu New Zealand Botanists
Oenothera stricta Ledeb. ex Link
Oenothera stricta Ledeb. ex Link
Oenothera stricta Ledeb. ex Link

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Oenothera stricta Ledeb. ex Link
New Zealand
Oenothera stricta Ledeb. ex Link
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
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Hawke's Bay Land District
Oenothera stricta Ledeb. ex Link
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
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North Auckland Land District
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Otago Land District
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Wellington Land District

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1 January 2000
19 October 2007
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