Muehlenbeckia Meisn.
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Nomenclature
Meisn.
Meisn.
1841
Muhlenbeckia
conserved
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Muehlenbeckia Meisn.
genus
Muehlenbeckia
Classification
Subordinates
- Muehlenbeckia adpressa
- Muehlenbeckia astonii
- Muehlenbeckia australis
- Muehlenbeckia axillaris
- Muehlenbeckia axillaris
- Muehlenbeckia complexa
- Muehlenbeckia ephedroides
- Muehlenbeckia hypogaea
- Muehlenbeckia microphylla
- Muehlenbeckia muricatula
- Muehlenbeckia paucifolia
- Muehlenbeckia trilobata
- Muehlenbeckia truncata
- Muehlenbeckia varians
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Muehlenbeckia Meisn.
Plants dioec. or polygamous, in fascicles subtended by sheathing bracts; fascicles axillary, or in axillary or terminal spikes, racemes or panicles. Per. deeply 5-partite, or tepals united only at base. ♂ with 8 stamens, filaments filiform, anthers ovate in outline, pistil obsolescent. ♀ with trigonous ovary; styles 3; outer tepals often becoming enlarged, white, succulent, and enclosing the trigonous nutlike achene; staminodia thick to obsolete. Shrubs or woody lianes with alt. lvs and ochreate stipules. Genus of some 20 N.Z., Australian and S. American spp.
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1 January 2000
24 July 2008