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Viola tricolor L.

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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Very uncommon species in its natural range and very rarely found in cultivation around the world. New Zealand records are most likely based on V. xwittrockiana.

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L.
L.
1753
935
ICN
Viola tricolor L.
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Viola tricolor

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tricolor

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Viola tricolor L.

Annual, with short-lived rosette; stems erect or ascending, with short hairs or glabrous, 7-30 cm tall. Lvs (1)-2-4 cm long, glabrous or with short hairs, with 3-7 crenations or blunt teeth each side. Basal lvs broadly ovate, truncately narrowed to long petiole; stipules short, linear-lobed. Stem lvs becoming narrow-elliptic, the uppermost cuneately narrowed to short petiole; stipules pinnatifid to palmatifid, 1/2-3/4 lf length, with leaflike terminal lobe and 3-7 linear lateral lobes. Peduncles erect, glabrous; bracts short, narrowly triangular. Fls 1.5-2.5 cm diam. Sepals narrowly triangular, acute, 5-8 mm long; appendages 2-3 mm long. Petals violet and/or yellow and cream, the upper > the upper sepals, the lowest with yellow or orange blotch and purple veins, the lowest and lateral bearded; spur 3-4 mm long, usually > the sepal appendages. Style geniculate at base, 1 mm long; stigma globose, with ligule on lower surface. Capsule ellipsoid, glabrous, 5-10 mm long. Seeds oblong, pale brown, 1.5 mm long.

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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Viola tricolor L.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Viola tricolor L.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Viola tricolor L.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Viola tricolor L.
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Viola tricolor L.
New Zealand
Taranaki Land District
Viola tricolor L.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Viola tricolor L.
United Kingdom

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scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
12 December 2007
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