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Volume IV (1988) - Flora of New Zealand Naturalised Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms, Dicotyledons
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Anagallis minima (L.) E.H.L.Krause

*A. minima (L.) E. H. Krause, in Sturm, Deutschl. Fl.  ed. 2, 9:   251  (1901)

Annual; stems slender, 2-3 cm long, erect, forming small tufts. Lvs subsessile, 2-4 × 0.8-2 mm, eglandular, ovate or elliptic-ovate; base narrow-cuneate; apex apiculate. Fls solitary. Pedicels very short, elongating little at fruiting. Calyx 2-2.5 mm long; lobes lanceolate, acuminate; margins herbaceous and green. Corolla c. 1.5-2 mm long, white or pale pink, eglandular; lobes probably ovate and entire. Stamens very short; filaments > anthers. Capsule c. 1.5 mm diam., < calyx lobes, pinkish just before maturity; style persistent. Seeds c. 0.4 mm long, slightly reticulate, angular, oblong-ellipsoid.

N.: Te Hana (near Wellsford, N. Auckland), Glen Eden, Waikumete Cemetery (Auckland), Cape Turakirae (Wellington).

Eurasia, N. Africa, N. and S. America 1975

Lawns, bare compacted soil.

FL Oct-Nov.

A. minima was first collected in a lawn at Glen Eden in 1975. It has been previously recorded in N.Z. as Centunculus minimus.

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