Muehlenbeckia astonii Petrie
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Muehlenbeckia astonii Petrie, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 43: 257, t. 2 (1911)
Muehlenbeckia astonii Petrie
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Petrie
Petrie
1911
257, t. 2
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Muehlenbeckia astonii Petrie
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Muehlenbeckia astonii
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Muehlenbeckia astonii Petrie
Erect shrub up to 2 m. tall and in diam.; stems many, up to 1 cm. diam., much branched; branchlets slender, flexuous, divaricate and ± interlacing; canelike shoots often developed from near base. Lvs in fascicles of 2-3 on short branchlets, or distributed along elongate branch-lets; lamina 3-10 mm. diam., us. broad-obcordate, cuneately narrowed to short slender petiole, submembr., us. entire, occ. incised at apex. Fls minute, on very short peduncles in small axillary fascicles. ♂ not seen; ♀ ± 2.5 mm. diam.; tepals green to white or pinkish; staminodes us. 8; ovary bluntly trigonous, faces grooved; stigmas 3, fimbriate. Fr. 2-2.5 × 1·25 mm., dull, rugulose; tepals succulent or dry.
Muehlenbeckia astonii Petrie
2n = 20
n = 10
2n = 20
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Muehlenbeckia astonii Petrie
Muehlenbeckia astonii Petrie
Muehlenbeckia astonii Petrie
Muehlenbeckia astonii Petrie
Muehlenbeckia astonii Petrie
Muehlenbeckia astonii Petrie
Muehlenbeckia astonii Petrie
Muehlenbeckia astonii Petrie
Muehlenbeckia astonii Petrie
Muehlenbeckia astonii Petrie
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1 January 2000
12 April 2007