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Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Epilobium pernitens Cockayne & Allan

E. pernitens Ckn. et Allan in T.N.Z.I. 56, 1926, 23.

Type locality: Ruahine Range. Type: collected by H. H. A., not found in Cockayne Herb., W.

Branching herb forming patches up to ± 10 cm. diam. Lvs us. crowded, on petioles up to ± 3 mm. long; lamina 3-5-(7) mm. long, glossy and ± purple above, concavo-convex, ± fleshy, glab.; margins entire or nearly so, ± recurved. Fls 10-16 mm. or slightly more diam.; calyx-lobes oblong-lanceolate, acute, ± 4 mm. long; petals ± 8 mm. long, emarginate, white, with ± 10 purple lines, broad-ovate. Capsules ± 30 mm. long, glab., slender; peduncles ± 50-60 mm. long, slender, brownish red. Seeds smooth or very minutely papillose.

DIST.: N., S. Montane to subalpine grassland, herbfield and fellfield: Ruahine Range, Tararua Range; Mount Stokes, J. A. Hay; N. W. Nelson, various localities J. A. Hay, R. Mason; Paparoa Range, L. Cockayne.

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