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

G. pusillum Petrie in T.N.Z.I. 28, 1896, 538.

Type: W, Herb. Petrie, D. Petrie.

Up to 1 dm. tall, with slender stock. Lvs radical, up to 2.5 cm. long, sparsely strigose, pinnate; terminal lflt c. 7 mm. long, suborbicular, crenate; lateral lflts c. 5 pairs, small. Scapes us. c. 5 cm. tall, with one or more minute bracts, or nude, pubescent. Fls solitary, minute; calyx-lobes ovate, bractlets minute; petals 5-6, white, about oblong. Receptacle elongate, villous; achenes glab., minute, obliquely obovoid-oblong; style minute, recurved.

DIST.: S. Old Man Range, c. 1500 m., Petrie and others.

FL. 11-2. FT. 12-3.

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