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Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Cheesemania O.E.Schulz

CHEESEMANIA Schulz, 1929

Sepals linear to oblong, not saccate; petals white, spathulate; pistil subsessile; ovary with 12-36 ovules; style very short. Siliques linear to narrow-oblong, midnerve thin, lateral nerves faint. Seeds in two rows, obovate to rounded, or pyriform, somewhat flattened; cots accumbent. Perennial herbs with very stout stock, rosulate basal lvs; cauline lvs us. present. The N.Z. spp. are endemic. C. radicata is endemic to Tasmania.

Key

1
Lvs with ± dense stellate pubescence
2
Lvs glab. or with ± sparse simple hairs
3
2
Infl. dense; plant not > 10 cm. tall
5. enysii
Infl. open; plant up to 25 cm. or more tall
3. fastigiata var. stellata
3
Siliques 4-6 mm. broad
4
Siliques not > 3 mm. broad
5
4
Lvs spathulate to oblanceolate, 8 mm. or more broad, ± villous
1. latesiliqua
Lvs linear, not or hardly > 3 mm. broad, glabrate
2. gibbsii
5
Radical lvs inciso-serrate, cauline present
3. fastigiata
Radical lvs bluntly lobed almost to midrib, cauline absent
4. wallii
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