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Centaurium erythraea Rafn.

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Centaurium erythraea Rafn. (1800)
Centaurium erythraea Rafn.

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Exotic
Wild
New Zealand
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Rafn.
Rafn.
1800
ICN
Centaurium erythraea Rafn.
species
Centaurium erythraea

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erythraea

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Centaurium erythraea Rafn.

Glabrous, erect annual or biennial with usually simple stems to c. 50 cm high and rosette of basal lvs persisting until after flowering. Basal lvs 1-4 × 0.5-2.2 cm, elliptic to obovate, 3-5-veined; apex rounded to ± mucronate. Cauline lvs smaller and narrower than basal, 3-veined; apex obtuse to acute. Infl. a corymbiform cyme; fls usually dense, sessile or shortly pedicellate. Bracts linear to lanceolate, > calyx. Calyx 4-6 mm long; lobes narrow-linear. Corolla 10-14 mm long; tube narrow- cylindric, white, pink towards apex; lobes 5-7 × c. 2 mm, elliptic, patent, usually pink, rarely white, obtuse or subacute. Stamens < corolla lobes. Capsule 8-10 mm long, fusiform. Seeds alveolate, minute, c. 0.2 mm long.

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Centaurium australe sensu New Zealand Botanists
Centaurium erythraea Rafn.
Centaurium erythraea Rafn.
Centaurium erythraea Rafn.
Centaurium erythraea Rafn.
Centaurium erythraea Rafn.
Centaurium minus Garsault
Centaurium erythraea Rafn.

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Centaurium erythraea Rafn.
[Not available]
Centaurium erythraea Rafn.
Chile
Centaurium erythraea Rafn.
France
Centaurium erythraea Rafn.
New Zealand
Centaurium erythraea Rafn.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Centaurium erythraea Rafn.
New Zealand
Hawke's Bay Land District
Centaurium erythraea Rafn.
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
Centaurium erythraea Rafn.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Centaurium erythraea Rafn.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Centaurium erythraea Rafn.
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Centaurium erythraea Rafn.
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Centaurium erythraea Rafn.
New Zealand
Taranaki Land District
Centaurium erythraea Rafn.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Centaurium erythraea Rafn.
New Zealand
Westland Land District
Centaurium erythraea Rafn.
United Kingdom
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District

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daadfead-36c2-4960-8cfa-7af0bea5a1a4
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
7 February 2008
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