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Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Aciphylla ×latibracteata W.R.B.Oliv.

A. latibracteata W. R. B Oliver in T.R.S.N.Z. 84, 1956, 15.

Type: W, L. Cockayne 12/1/98," just on coming to the grass".

Tufted, with pinnate lvs up to c. 3 dm. long; sheaths up to c. 5 cm. × 15-25 mm.; stipules 25-40 mm. long stiff, subpungent; petioles striate 5-6 cm. × 3-4 mm.; lowest internodes ± 25 mm. long. Primary pinnae 4 pairs, striate, up to 11 cm. × 5-7 mm.; margins smooth, cartilaginous, tapering to pungent acicle c. 2 mm. long. Stem (immature ) bearing a male infl. not yet extended; bracts with sheaths ± 25-28 × 15 mm., with ± 10 faintly serrulate ribs; stipules 10-15 × 3 mm.; lamina 3-foliolate, on striate petiole 6 × 3 mm., with lflts ± 25 × 4 mm.

DIST.: S. only known from type specimen from Temple Peak, Westland.

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