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Volume III (1980) - Flora of New Zealand Adventive Cyperaceous, Petalous & Spathaceous Monocotyledons
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Hemerocallis fulva (L.) L.

*H. fulva (L.) L. Sp. Pl. ed. 2, 1762, 462.

Orange Day Lily

Large, clump-forming, rhizome spreading. Leaves 40-70-(90) × 1-3 cm, linear, equitant, later drooping, margins smooth. Inflorescence corymbose, to 15-flowered; scape stiff, bracteate, usually branched. Flowers 8-10 cm long, to 9 cm diam., widely funnel-shaped (often doubled), dull orange-red, strongly veined, not scented; pedicels short; bract scarious, < pedicel; perianth-tube very short; lobes recurved, inner broader with undulate margins. Ovary and ovules aborted.

N. Wellington - Marton, Wallaceville, Wellington City. S. Nelson - near Nelson City, near Denniston; Westland - Wanganui River mouth.

(Origin uncertain, plant always sterile; cultivated for several centuries in N. Hemisphere, often naturalised there and multiplying vegetatively)

First record: Healy 1958: 538.

First collection: Bolton St Cemetery, Wellington, in grass on clay bank, V. D. Zotov, 1.2.1945 ().

FL. 12-1.

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