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Volume IV (1988) - Flora of New Zealand Naturalised Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms, Dicotyledons
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Chamaemelum Mill.

CHAMAEMELUM Miller

Annual or perennial herbs, sometimes creeping but not rhizomatous. Lvs 1-3-pinnatisect, alternate. Capitula in corymbs, or often solitary, terminal, pedunculate; involucral bracts in few rows, with membranous margins. Receptacle hemispheric to conic; scales present. Outer florets ♀ or sterile, usually ligulate, white; inner florets ⚥, tubular, not compressed, saccate at base to enclose apex of achene. Achenes all similar, laterally compressed, weakly ribbed on inner surface, eglandular; pappus 0.

4 spp., S.W. Europe, Mediterranean. Naturalised sp. 1.

Chamaemelum is similar to Anthemis and sometimes included within it.

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