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Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Cheesemania wallii (Carse) Allan

C. wallii (Carse) Allan in T.R.S.N.Z. 76, 1947, 594.

Nasturtium wallii Carse in T.N.Z.I. 57, 1926, 92.

Type: CM, Carse herb. folder 730: specimen no. 2.

Stock stout, with deeply. descending taproot, crowned by dense rosette of basal lvs. Lvs up to 18 cm. long, coriac., glab., lanceolate-spathulate; lamina ± 2-5 × 1-2.5 cm., very deeply 4-lobed; lobes obtuse, mucronulate; petiole broad, flat. Cauline lvs absent. Infl. an unbranched raceme up to 3 dm. tall, with ∞ subcorymbosely arranged fls. Sepals ± 4-5 mm. long, oblong; petals white, ± 10 mm. long, spathulate, long- clawed. Siliques suberect, narrow-linear, up to 5 cm. × 3 mm. Seeds compressed.

DIST.: S. Rock-crevices on mountains near Lake Wakatipu, 1000-1500 m.; Cecil Peaks, Wall (Type locality); Bold Peak and Mount Bonpland, Simpson and Thomson.

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