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Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Lepidium kirkii Petrie

L. kirkii Petrie in T.N.Z.I. 22, 1890, 439.

Type locality: Gimmerburn district, Maniototo Plains. Type: W, Gimmerburn, Petrie.

Slender herb, branches arising from rather short rootstock; stems decumbent, up to 10 cm. long, very slender, flexuous, glabrate, sparingly branched, produced into racemes. Lvs entire, very narrow; radical up to 3 cm. long, linear-spathulate with scarious sheathing base; cauline c. 2.5 mm. long, linear, sessile or nearly so, minutely ciliate. Racemes short at anthesis, elongating in fr. to c. 4 cm.; fls minute, pedicels very slender. Sepals ovate-suborbicular, 0·5 mm. long; petals narrower, shorter, sts obsolete; stamens 4, glands 6, filiform. Silicles c. 2.5 mm. long, ovate-suborbicular, subacute, slightly compressed, minutely notched; style exserted. Seeds narrow-ovoid, somewhat compressed, yellowish brown, c. 1·5 mm. long.

DIST.: S. Salt patches in tussock-grassland, Central Otago.

FL. 11-1. FT. 12-2.

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