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

L. matau Petrie in T.N.Z.I. 19, 1887, 323.

L. sisymbrioides subsp. matau (Petrie) Thell. loc. cit., 313.

Type locality: Alexandra. Type: W, Alexandra S., Petrie.

Small erect ± scabrid-hoary dioec. branched herb up to 10 cm. tall; stock stout, branched; taproot deeply descending. Basal lvs us. many, coriac., 2-4 cm. long, narrow-oblong in outline, on short petioles, pinnate to pinnatisect to pinnatifid; pinnae or lobes rounded-cuneate, ± pilose, entire or sts ± incised especially on anterior margin. Cauline lvs few, sessile, oblong, entire or nearly so. Fls minute, apetalous; sepals ± hairy; ♂ rather crowded in racemes up to 5 cm. long; pedicels slender, hairy; stamens 4. ♀ lax in shorter racemes. Pods elliptic-ovate in outline; style just > notch. Seeds ovoid, yellowish.

DIST.: S. Alexandra, Gimmerburn.

FL. 11-1. FT. 12-3.

Var. lobulatum Thell. loc. cit., 313. Pinnules of basal lvs subpinnately lobate, lobes obtuse, rounded. Dist.: Type locality: Maniototo Plain, 450 m. Type: Herb. Univ. Zurich, Petrie.

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