We value your privacy

We use cookies and other technologies to enhance your experience, analyse site usage, help with reporting, and assist in other ways to improve the website. You can choose to allow cookies and other technologies or decline. Your choice will not affect site functionality.

Click for help
Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
Copy a link to this page Cite this record

Parietaria debilis G.Forst.

P. debilis Forst. f. Prodr. 1786, 73.

Urtica debilis Endl. Prodr. Fl. norf. 1833, 37.

Type: P, Forster no. 204.

Diffuse annual, sparsely pubescent, flaccid herb; branches slender, weak, hardened at base, up to 3 dm. or more long. Lvs membr., thin or sts subsucculent in coastal forms, 1-4 × 1-2.5 cm., on almost filiform petioles up to 3 cm. long, us. with accessory smaller lvs; lamina broad-to rhomboid-ovate with cuneate base, obtuse to obtusely attenuate at apex. Cymes congested, 2-8-fld; bracts linear; per.-segs ± pilose, pistillate enlarged in fr. Achenes 1-1·5 mm. long, ovoid, dark brown, glossy.

DIST.: K., N., S., Ch. Coastal and lowland light forest, forest margins and open shrubland throughout.

Click to go back to the top of the page
Top