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Pleurophyllum speciosum Hook.f.

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Hooker, J.D. 1844–1845: The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H.M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror in the Years 1839–1843, under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross. I. Flora Antarctica. Part I. Botany of Lord Auckland’s Group and Campbell’s Island. Reeve, Brothers, London.
1844
31, t. 22,23
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Pleurophyllum speciosum Hook.f.
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Pleurophyllum speciosum
TYPE: NEW ZEALAND. Lord Auckland’s group, top of the hill above Rendezvous Harbour, 1840, J. D. Hooker s.n.? (lectotype: K 882119 Herbarium Hookerianum designated by Allan 1961: 610

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Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Asterales
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Pleurophyllum
speciosum

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Allan, H.H. 1961: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. I. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledones. Government Printer, Wellington.

Pleurophyllum speciosum Hook.f.

Radicals lvs 15-45 × 10-25 cm., appressed to ground or ascending, broadly obovate to subrhomboid, narrowed to broad base, coriac., margins remotely and indistinctly crenate to subentire, hydathodes hidden by tomentum; lateral veins ridged, almost as strong as midrib. 15-30; lamina loosely tomentose below, pilose on and near veins above and with ∞ moniliform hairs on surface. Scapes stout, up to 1m. tall, tomentose above; lower lvs c. 15 cm. long, ± oblong, upper diminishing gradually to bracts. Capitula c. 6 cm. diam. including long ray-florets, c. 25 in subcorymbose racemes; ray-florets pale purple to white, disk-florets purple. Phyll. ± clad in moniliform hairs, acute. Achenes densely strigose. Pappus-hairs not thickened above.

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Pleurophyllum speciosum Hook.f.
Pleurophyllum speciosum Hook.f.
Allan Herbarium (2007)
Pleurophyllum speciosum Hook.f.
Pleurophyllum Hook.f.
Pleurophyllum speciosum Hook.f.
Pleurophyllum speciosum Hook.f.
Allan, H.H. (1961)
Pleurophyllum speciosum Hook.f.
Pleurophyllum speciosum Hook.f.
de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A. et al. (2004)
Pleurophyllum speciosum Hook.f.
Pleurophyllum speciosum Hook.f.
de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A. et al. (2009)
Pleurophyllum speciosum Hook.f.
Pleurophyllum speciosum Hook.f.
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R. et al. (2013)
Pleurophyllum speciosum Hook.f.
Pleurophyllum speciosum Hook.f.
Pleurophyllum speciosum Hook.f.
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R. et al. (2018)
Pleurophyllum speciosum Hook.f.
Pleurophyllum speciosum Hook.f.
Pleurophyllum speciosum Hook.f.
Saldivia, P.; Wagstaff, S.J. et al. (2022)
Pleurophyllum speciosum Hook.f.
Pleurophyllum speciosum var. suberecta Kirk
Pleurophyllum speciosum var. suberecta Kirk
Saldivia, P.; Wagstaff, S.J. et al. (2022)
Pleurophyllum speciosum Hook.f.

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Pleurophyllum speciosum Hook.f.
New Zealand
Southland Land District
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typification
TYPE: NEW ZEALAND. Lord Auckland’s group, top of the hill above Rendezvous Harbour, 1840, J. D. Hooker s.n.? (lectotype: K 882119 Herbarium Hookerianum designated by Allan 1961: 610

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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
30 June 2022
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