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Volume IV (1988) - Flora of New Zealand Naturalised Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms, Dicotyledons
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Dichondra J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.

DICHONDRA Forster et Forster f.

Small, creeping, glabrous or hairy perennial herbs; stems rooting at nodes. Latex 0. Lvs entire or nearly so; petioles usually long and slender. Fls solitary, axillary, small and inconspicuous; bracts minute. Sepals 5, subequal, accrescent. Corolla campanulate, deeply 5-lobed, greenish or yellowish; lobes valvate with infolded margins. Stamens included. Ovary of 2 distinct carpels, each with (1)-2 ovules. Styles 2, filiform, inserted between carpels. Capsule membranous, usually 1-seeded, 2-lobed, indehiscent or dehiscing irregularly. Seeds smooth and glabrous.

Key

1
Lvs usually 3-10 mm diam.; corolla usually much > calyx
2. brevifolia
At least some lvs > 10 mm diam.; corolla < or slightly > calyx
2
2
Lvs glabrous or glabrate above; fr. much < calyx
1. *micrantha
Lvs hairy above; fr. < to almost = calyx
3. repens

4-5 spp., mainly warm temperate and subtropical, occasionally tropical. Native spp. 2, naturalised 1.

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