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Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Botrychium lunaria (L.) Sw.

B. lunaria (L.) Swartz Syn. Fil. 1806, 110.

Osmunda lunaria L. Sp. Pl. 1753, 1064.

Moonwort.

Stipes stout; fronds 7-15 cm. tall, us. solitary; sterile seg. simply pinnate, pinnae 3-6-jugate, broad-flabellate to semi-circular or lunate. Sporangia close-set, yellowish.

DIST.: S. Known in N.Z. only from specimens collected by J. D. Enys in 1884 on the south-west slopes of Mount Torlesse at c. 750 m. Widespread elsewhere.

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