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Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Abrotanella caespitosa Petrie ex Kirk

A. caespitosa Petrie ex Kirk in T.N.Z.I. 24, 1892, 420.

Type: W, D. Petrie.

Stock rather stout, multicipital, emitting short stolons or rhizomes with scalelike lvs; plant forming matted patches. Lvs rosulate, at nodes, 1-1∙5 cm. × 1-1∙5 mm., narrow-linear, obtuse, spreading to recurved, coriac. Peduncles up to 1∙5 cm. long in fr., with 1-2 short linear bracts or nude. Capitula up to 5 mm. diam.; phyll. 6-8, c. 2 mm. long, broad-oblong, obtuse, veins often obscure, margins scarious. Florets 6-8, not strongly dimorphic; achenes c. 2 mm. long, fusiform to obovoid, glab., obscurely ribbed to smooth.

DIST.: N., S. Montane to subalpine grassland, bog and herbfield from Ruahine and Tararua Ranges to lat. 45° 30' east of divide. Type locality Mount Kyeburn.

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