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Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Lagenifera pinnatifida

L. pinnatifida Hook. f. Fl. N.Z. 1, 1853, 126.

L. pinnatifida var. hirsutissima Ckn. in T.N.Z.I. 48, 1916, 197.

Type locality: Inland Patea near village. Type: K, Colenso.

Stock simple to branched; rhizomes 0 or short or occ. long; roots slender, wiry. Basal lvs rosulate; lamina ± 20-60 × 15-25 mm., obovate-oblong to oblong, cuneately narrowed to base, thin, soft, densely clad on both surfaces in long soft multicellular subappressed hairs; margins us. deeply crenate to crenate-dentate to pinnatifid; teeth us. ∞, ± apiculate. Petioles broad, 10-15-(30) mm. long. Cauline lvs similar, smaller, few to 0. Scapes 5-25 cm. long, slender to rather stout, erect, sparsely hairy towards apex; bracts linear, c. 2 mm. long. Capitula c. 10-15 mm. diam. Phyll. narrow-oblong to narrow-lanceolate, acute; scarious margins distinct. Ray-florets ∞, shortly ligulate. Achenes 2-2.5 × 0.75-1mm., obliquely obovate; margins thickened. Beak erect, 0·5-0.75 mm. long.

DIST.: N., S. Lowland and montane light forest, us. marginal, and grassland. Local in N. from c. lat. 38° 30' southwards, throughout S.

FL. 11-1. FT. 12-3.

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