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Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Epilobium cockayneanum Petrie

E. cockaynianum Petrie in T.N.Z.I. 41, 1909, 140.

Type locality: Mount Holdsworth. Type: W, Mount Holdsworth, Petrie, c. 3800 ft., 25/1/1908.

Caespitose herb with ∞ close-set stems, decumbent at base then erect or ascending, 10-15-(25) cm. long; branches pale green or reddish, bifariously to uniformly pubescent, becoming glab. Lvs opp., crowded to approximate, floral alt., subsessile or with petiole not > 1 mm. Lamina (5)-10-14 × (3)-5-8 mm., broad-ovate to ovate-elliptic or ovate-oblong, thin, glab.; margins remotely, obscurely toothed. Fls ± 4-6 mm. diam.; calyx-lobes lanceolate; petals white or faint rose, us. ± twice length of calyx. Capsules glab. or nearly so, brown, 25-40-(50) mm. long; peduncles 20-40 mm. long, reddish, faintly puberulous. Seeds glab.

DIST.: N. Montane to subalpine grassland and herbfield, Tararua Range. Probably extends to northern part of S., but material so far inadequate.

FL.- FT. 12-3.

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