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Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Schizeilema (Hook.f.) Domin

SCHIZEILEMA Domin, 1908

Fls 5-merous in simple to irregularly compound bracted umbels. Calyx-teeth 5, prominent, persistent; petals imbricate; disk thick, flat. Fr. ± tetragonous; mericarps subterete to dorsally somewhat compressed; ribs 5, evenly placed, lateral not close to commissure. Glab. perennial herbs with creeping and rooting stolons. Lvs simple to 3-5- foliolate. Some 15 spp., mainly of N.Z., with 1 in Falkland Is, 1 in Patagonia, and 1 in Victoria. The N.Z. and Australian spp. lack a district carpophore. The treatment follows in large part that of Domin in Engl. Bot. Jb. 40, 1908, 573-585.

Key

1
Lamina not or very shallowly rather obscurely lobed
2
Lamina rather deeply distinctly 3-5-lobed or -foliolate
5
2
Lamina not > 6·5 mm. diam.; plant very small
3
Lamina not < 10 mm. diam.; plant robust
4
3
Lamina entire or nearly so, margins flat, bracts ovate; plant creeping
1. cockaynei
Lamina minutely crenulate, margins recurved, bracts linear-oblong; plant tufted
2. exiguum
4
Pedicels < fr.; stipules entire; lvs not > c. 2 cm. diam
3. reniforme
Pedicels > fr.; stipules fimbriate; lvs up to c. 5 cm. diam
4. haastii
5
Lflts on petiolules c. 3 mm. long; peduncles much < petioles
5. trifoliolatum
Lflts sessile or subsessile; peduncles = or > petioles
6
6
Laminae not > 10 mm. diam.; segs entire or obscurely toothed
6. nitens
Laminae, all or most, ± 15 mm. diam.; segs distinctly lobed or toothed
7
7
Involucral bracts acute or acuminate
8
Involucral bracts obtuse
9
8
Lamina-margin not or hardly thickened, not recurved; pedicels at least 3 times > fr
10. allanii
Lamina-margin thickened, recurved; pedicels not > fr
7. colensoi
9
Lamina pale green, membr.; segs3
8. pallidum
Lamina dark green, coriac., segs 3-5
10
10
Stipules entire, ± ciliate; fr. > pedicel
9. hydrocotyloides
Stipules laciniate; fr. < pedicel
11. roughii
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