Acaena viridior (Cockayne) Allan
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Acaena viridior (Cockayne) Allan, Fl. New Zealand 1, 361 (1961)
Nomenclature
(Cockayne) Allan
Cockayne
Allan
1961
361
ICN
species
Acaena viridior
Classification
Descriptions
Acaena viridior (Cockayne) Allan
Main stems stout, creeping and rooting, up to 1 m. long; branchlets ascending, up to 10 cm. long, rather sparsely pilose to glab. Lvs c. 4-7 cm. long, 7-9-foliolate; stipules c. 1 cm. long, deeply 3-fld. Upper lflts elliptic to obovate-oblong, crenate-serrate, c. 1·5-2 cm. long, subsessile, bright green and glab. or nearly so above, paler and pilose on veins below. Terminal lflt on petiolule c. 3-4 mm. long. Scapes stout, up to 10 cm. long, ± pilose; bracts lfy, c. 1 cm. long. Heads c. 3 cm. diam. including spines; bractlets linear, up to 1 cm. long, often deeply toothed. Cupules obconic, tetragonous, almost winged above, pilose, c. 4 mm. long; spines unequal, up to 13 mm. long, pale green to pale yellow when mature. Sepals rather pale green, ovate-lanceolate, up to 1·5 mm. long, pilose below, glab. above. Stamens 2, anthers white. Stigma plumose.
Taxonomic concepts
Acaena viridior (Cockayne) Allan
Acaena viridior (Cockayne) Allan
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