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Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Myosurus L.

MYOSURUS L., 1753

Scapes us. several, nude, each with 1 minute fl.; sepals us. 5, minutely spurred at base; petals 5 or 0; stamens 5-20; achenes ∞, crowded on a long slender receptacle. Tiny annual herbs with tufted linear-spathulate lvs. A genus of a few rather ill-defined spp., mainly of North Temperate regions. The N.Z. sp. is apparently endemic.

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