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Kelleria laxa (Cheeseman) Heads

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Threat status: Not threatened

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Kelleria laxa (Cheeseman) Heads in George, Fl. Austral. 18, 323 (1990)
Kelleria laxa (Cheeseman) Heads

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Endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region

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(Cheeseman) Heads
Cheeseman
Heads
1990
323
ICN
species
Kelleria laxa

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Plant forming lax patches up to 30 cm. or more diam.; stems and branches prostrate and rooting, up to 4 mm. diam.; branchlets spreading to suberect, up to 5 cm. long, glabrate except at lf-bases. Lvs erecto-patent, densely imbricate, 4-5 × 1-1·5 mm., linear- to elliptic-oblong, rounded at apex, nearly flat, submembr.; venation us. evident, margins ciliate, apex penicillate. Fls 3-8 per head; scales 8, minute, distinct. Per. tube villous, 1·75-2 mm. long; lobes 1·5-1·75 mm. long, oblong. Ovary ovoid, villous at apex. Fr. ovoid, 2 mm. long.

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Drapetes dieffenbachii var. laxa Cheeseman
Kelleria laxa (Cheeseman) Heads
Drapetes dieffenbachii var. laxa Cheeseman
Kelleria laxa (Cheeseman) Heads
Drapetes laxus (Cheeseman) Allan
Kelleria laxa (Cheeseman) Heads
Kelleria laxa (Cheeseman) Heads
Kelleria laxa (Cheeseman) Heads
Kelleria laxa (Cheeseman) Heads
Kelleria laxa (Cheeseman) Heads
Kelleria laxa (Cheeseman) Heads
Kelleria laxa (Cheeseman) Heads
Kelleria laxa (Cheeseman) Heads
Kelleria laxa (Cheeseman) Heads
Kelleria laxa (Cheeseman) Heads
Kelleria laxa (Cheeseman) Heads
Kelleria laxa (Cheeseman) Heads
Kelleria laxa (Cheeseman) Heads
Kelleria laxa (Cheeseman) Heads

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
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Kelleria laxa (Cheeseman) Heads
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scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
7 October 2005
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