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Volume II (1970) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Monocotyledons except Graminae
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Xeronema callistemon var. bracteosa L.B.Moore

Var. bracteosa L. B. Moore in N.Z. J. Bot.  6,  1969,  490.

Type: CHR from plant cultivated in Whangarei, K. Pickmere, 11 Nov. 1943.

Floral bracts more leaf-like, green at least until anthesis, longer than pedicels.

Both vars grow on the Poor Knights Is.; in  var. callistemon the whole infl. becomes red while still very young whereas in  var. bracteosa red colour shows only when the fl.-buds begin to emerge from the longer green bracts.

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