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Epilobium pedunculare A.Cunn.

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Endemic
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New Zealand
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A.Cunn.
A.Cunn.
1839
31
ICN
Epilobium pedunculare A.Cunn.
species
Epilobium pedunculare
Original material (according to the protologue): "New Zealand (Northern Island). Near the lake [Lake Omapere – P.dL.] situated between Waimaté Mission House and the great forest of Hokianga. – 1834, Rich. Cunningham". Type (fide Raven, Raven, 1976: 169): "East of the lake between Waimate Mission Station and the great forest of Hokianga, North Auckland, New Zealand, 1834, Richard Cunningham (K)". Allan (1961: 260) partially typified the name thus: "Near the lake situated between Waimate Mission House and the great forest of Hokianga. Type: K, R. Cunningham, 1834".

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pedunculare

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Stems slender, sparingly branched, up to ± 20 cm. long; branches glab, or faintly bifariously pubescent. Lvs opp., on petioles up to 4 mm. long; lamina (6(-8-12 × 6-12 mm., suborbicular to broadly ovate-oblong, thin, membr., pale green, glab.; margins rather closely and sharply toothed. Fls 4-7 mm. diam.; calyx-lobes lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, < petals; petals white to pale rose, deeply cleft, ± 6 mm. long, colour often deepening on drying. Capsules 25-50 mm. long, glab.; peduncles 5-10 cm.; seeds densely papillose.

Epilobium pedunculare A.Cunn.

Herb forming dense or lax patches up to ± 20 cm. diam.; stems pale green to reddish purple, with internodes ± 1 cm. long; branchlets at first faintly bifariously pubescent. Lvs opp. ± crowded, subsessile; lamina ovate to suborbicular, 3-5-(10) mm. diam., pale green, often red-tinged below, subcoriac., glab.; entire or with a few minute denticles. Fls ± 3-5 mm. diam.; calyx-lobes ovate-lanceolate, glab.; petals white or pale pink. Capsules glab., reddish, (10)-20-40 mm. long; peduncles glab. (30)-50-100 mm. long. Seeds densely papillose.

Epilobium pedunculare A.Cunn.

n = 18
n = 18
2n = 36
n = 18

Epilobium pedunculare A.Cunn.

Creeping herb, rooting at nodes and forming loose mats up to 0.5 m diam. Stems strigillose or with short erect hairs on lines decurrent from margins of petioles. Lamina of lf very broadly ovate to orbicular, 2.5-14 × 2.5-15 mm. Floral tube 0.7-0.9 mm deep. Petals white, occasionally pink, 3-5 × 1.9-2.6 mm. Capsule glabrous, 2-5 cm long; fruiting pedicel 4.5-10 cm long.

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Epilobium caespitosum Hausskn.
Epilobium pedunculare A.Cunn.
Epilobium linnaeoides Hook.f.
Epilobium pedunculare A.Cunn.
Epilobium nummulariifolium var. caespitosum (Hausskn.) Kirk
Epilobium pedunculare A.Cunn.
Epilobium nummulariifolium var. pedunculare (A.Cunn.) Hook.f.
Epilobium pedunculare A.Cunn.
Epilobium pedunculare A.Cunn.
Epilobium pedunculare A.Cunn.
Epilobium pedunculare A.Cunn.
Epilobium pedunculare A.Cunn.
Epilobium pedunculare A.Cunn.
Epilobium pedunculare A.Cunn.
Epilobium pedunculare A.Cunn.
Epilobium pedunculare A.Cunn.
Epilobium pedunculare A.Cunn.
Epilobium pedunculare A.Cunn.
Epilobium pedunculare A.Cunn.
Epilobium pedunculare A.Cunn.
Epilobium pedunculare A.Cunn.
Epilobium pedunculare A.Cunn.
Epilobium pedunculare A.Cunn.
Epilobium pedunculare A.Cunn.
Epilobium pedunculare A.Cunn.
Epilobium pedunculare A.Cunn.
Epilobium pedunculare A.Cunn.

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Epilobium pedunculare A.Cunn.
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typification
Original material (according to the protologue): "New Zealand (Northern Island). Near the lake [Lake Omapere – P.dL.] situated between Waimaté Mission House and the great forest of Hokianga. – 1834, Rich. Cunningham". Type (fide Raven, Raven, 1976: 169): "East of the lake between Waimate Mission Station and the great forest of Hokianga, North Auckland, New Zealand, 1834, Richard Cunningham (K)". Allan (1961: 260) partially typified the name thus: "Near the lake situated between Waimate Mission House and the great forest of Hokianga. Type: K, R. Cunningham, 1834".

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1 January 2000
15 May 2008
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