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

R. neglectus Kirk in T.N.Z.I. 9, 1877, 493.

Type locality: "shingly beaches, Wellington" Type: W, T. Kirk.

Glab. herb up to 20 cm. tall, us. less; stock long, stout, often branched above. Lvs in clusters on flattened petioles up to 6 cm. long; ochrea up to 3 cm. long; lamina (2)-5-8-(12) × (1)-2-4 cm., narrow-oblong, cuneate to truncate at base; margins subcrenate-sinuate. Infl. lvs narrow-oblong to linear, decreasing from 3 cm. Infl. of dense axillary clusters up to ± 16-fld, on short stout, simple or 1-2-branched axis. Fls on short ± deflexed pedicels to subsessile. Outer tepals ± 2 mm. long, oblong; inner ovate-lanceolate ± 4 mm. long; tubercle ± 1 mm. long. Fr. c. 2-2.5 × 1 mm., pale brown, sublustrous, triquetrous, tightly invested by thickened per.; fimbriate stigma persistent.

DIST.: N., S., St., A., C. (W. B. Brockie). Gravelly and sandy beaches from shores of Cook Strait southwards.

FL. 11-3. FT. 12-4.

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