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

G. uniflorum Buchan. in T.N.Z.I. 2, 1870, 88.

Type locality: mountains of Nelson, 900 to 1200 m., H. H. Travers.

Up to 2.5 dm. tall, with stout, woody, creeping stock up to 5 dm. long. Lvs radical, rosulate, up to 1 dm. long, glab. to rather densely pilose; terminal lflt 2-4 × 1·5-3 cm., broadly ovate to oblong-cordate, crenate, margins densely ciliate with slender golden yellow to tawny hairs; lateral lflts of 1-2 minute, toothed or entire pairs. Scapes up to 15 cm. tall, pubescent and villous; bracts few, small, entire or toothed. Fls solitary, c. 2.5 cm. diam.; petals broad-ovate, white, c. 1·5 cm. long; calyx pubescent and villous, lobes c. 6 mm. long, narrow-ovate, bractlets shorter, often bifurcate. Achenes ∞, villous, compressed, c. 2 mm. long; style c. 5 mm. long, pilose towards achene, recurved at tip.

DIST.: S. Subalpine herbfield and rocks from lat. 41° to 45°.

FL. 1-2. FT. 2.

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