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Potentilla indica (Andrews) Th.Wolf

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Potentilla indica (Andrews) Th.Wolf (1904)
Potentilla indica (Andrews) Th.Wolf

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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(Andrews) Th.Wolf
Andrews
Th.Wolf
1904
ICN
species
Potentilla indica

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indica

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Herb with short stock, somewhat flaccid, up to 10-(15) cm high at flowering; runners greenish, slender, pilose, up to c. 50 cm long and rooting at nodes and tips to form new rosettes. Basal lvs several in rosette; petiole 30-80-(160) mm long, densely pilose; leaflets obovate to narrowly ovate, subacute, obtuse to cuneate at base, bright green above, paler below, usually sparsely to moderately pilose on both surfaces especially along veins, sometimes with only scattered hairs on upper, with margins crenate to obscurely lobed; terminal leaflet 15-55 × 12-30 mm; lateral leaflets = terminal or slightly smaller; petiolules 1-5 mm long, pilose. Scape often only slightly exceeding lvs, pilose. Epicalyx segments broadly obovate, pilose, deflexed at fruiting, with 3-5 purple-tipped teeth. Sepals ovate-triangular, c. 6-10 mm long, acuminate, purple-tipped, pilose. Petals narrowly obovate, 4-8 mm long, ± = epicalyx segments and sepals, shallowly emarginate to rounded, spreading, bright yellow. Achenes uniformly scattered over and projecting from receptacle; receptacle red, swollen, up to 12 mm long, often slightly constricted near base.

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Duchesnea indica (Andrews) Focke
Potentilla indica (Andrews) Th.Wolf
Duchesnea indica (Andrews) Focke
Potentilla indica (Andrews) Th.Wolf
Fragaria indica Andrews
Potentilla indica (Andrews) Th.Wolf
Potentilla indica (Andrews) Th.Wolf
Potentilla indica (Andrews) Th.Wolf
Potentilla indica (Andrews) Th.Wolf
Potentilla indica (Andrews) Th.Wolf
Potentilla indica (Andrews) Th.Wolf
Potentilla indica (Andrews) Th.Wolf
Potentilla indica (Andrews) Th.Wolf
Potentilla indica (Andrews) Th.Wolf
Potentilla indica (Andrews) Th.Wolf

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New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Potentilla indica (Andrews) Th.Wolf
Australia
Potentilla indica (Andrews) Th.Wolf
China
Potentilla indica (Andrews) Th.Wolf
New Zealand
Potentilla indica (Andrews) Th.Wolf
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Potentilla indica (Andrews) Th.Wolf
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Potentilla indica (Andrews) Th.Wolf
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Potentilla indica (Andrews) Th.Wolf
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Potentilla indica (Andrews) Th.Wolf
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Potentilla indica (Andrews) Th.Wolf
New Zealand
Taranaki Land District
Potentilla indica (Andrews) Th.Wolf
New Zealand
Wellington Land District

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5 January 2010
12 October 2016
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