Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Epilobium gracilipes Kirk

E. gracilipes Kirk in T.N.Z.I. 27, 1895, 351.

Type locality: Broken River Basin. Type: W, J. D. Enys and T. Kirk, 1876.

Stock woody; stems woody at base, slender, decumbent then ascending, us. several to many, branched, up to 15 cm. long, glab.; branchlets bifariously pubescent, us. reddish. Lvs opp., us. distant, floral often alt., on petioles up to 4 mm. long. Lamina ovate to broad-ovate, often reddish below, (6·5)-10-17 × (5)-7-12 mm.; coriac. to submembr., glab.; margins obscurely and remotely denticulate to almost entire. Fls 5-6 mm. diam.; calyx < petals, lobes oblong to oblong-lanceolate; petals white. Capsules 25-35-(50) mm. long, glab.; peduncles very slender 35-50 mm. or more long. Seeds minutely papillose.

DIST.: S. Montane to subalpine grassland, herbfield and fellfield from lat. 41° to 43°.

FL.- FT. 10-2.

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