Volume IV (1988) - Flora of New Zealand Naturalised Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms, Dicotyledons
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Daboecia D.Don

DABOECIA D. Don

Small evergreen shrubs or shrublets. Lvs alternate, shortly petiolate, whitish tomentose below, entire. Fls pedicellate in terminal, bracteate, glandular racemes. Calyx 4-lobed almost to base, persistent. Corolla urceolate, deciduous, with 4 very short revolute lobes. Stamens usually 8, included; anthers awnless, dehiscing by apical pores. Capsule 4-valved, septicidal. Seeds numerous, rather warty.

2 spp., W. Europe and the Azores. Naturalised sp. 1.

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