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

GEUM L., 1753

Fls paniculate to corymbose or solitary, perfect; calyx with 5 persistent lobes, us. alternating with 5 bractlets; stamens ∞; carpels ∞, style terminal, slender; achenes with persistent style, us. jointed towards tip. Herbs, us. sparingly branched, sts scapose only; lvs radical and cauline, or cauline lvs reduced to bracts, pinnate to lyrate-pinnate. About 60 spp., all but two of the N.Z. spp. endemic.

Key

1
Achenes glabrous
2
Achenes villous
3
2
Fls solitary
1. pusillum
Fls in panicles
2. leiospermum
3
Fls yellow
4
Fls white
5
4
Lvs both radical and cauline, plant large
6. urbanum
Lvs radical only, plant small
4. divergens
5
Fls solitary, ± 2-3 cm. diam.
3. uniflorum
Fls in compound infl.; hardly > 1 cm. diam.
5. parviflorum
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