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Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Schizeilema allanii Cheeseman

S. allanii Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. 1925, 651.

S. allanii Petrie in T.N.Z.I. 56, 1926, 13.

Type locality: Mount Maharahara, Ruahine Range. Type: A, 6309, H. H. Allan; in hardly ripe fr., 17/2/1923.

Glab. herb with creeping, branching stems, rooting at nodes, forming open patches up to ± 3 dm. diam. Lvs tufted at nodes on slender petioles 5-10-(15) cm. long. Lamina rather pale green, subcoriac., 2-4 cm. diam., deeply 3-partite to 3-foliolate. Lflts or divisions obcuneate, irregularly lobulate to crenulate towards apex; margins slightly thickened and recurved. Peduncles very slender, occ. branched, ± 10 cm. long. Umbels ± 15 mm. diam.; fls 8-12 on capillary unequal pedicels 5-10 mm. long. Involucral bracts linear, acute to acuminate. Fr. ± 2.5 mm. long, tetragonous, deeply furrowed at commissure. Mericarps distinctly to obscurely 5-ribbed.

DIST.: N. Higher montane rather open shrubland, eastern ranges, apparently local. Recorded by A.P. Druce from Mount Hikurangi, Maungawaru, Arowhana.

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