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Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Acaena pallida (Kirk) Allan

A. pallida (Kirk) Allan comb. nov. 

A. novae-zelandiae var. pallida Kirk Stud. Fl. 1899, 134.

Type locality: Port Nicholson. Type: W, T. Kirk.

Main stems very stout, up to 1 m. or more long, procumbent, rooting, pilose; branches stout, pilose, up to 15 cm. or more long. Lvs up to 10 cm. or more long, 9-13-foliolate. Stipules lfy, up to 1 cm. long, 3-fid to simple. Lflts brownish to pale green above, paler below, glab. or nearly so above, pilose on veins below; coarsely serrate-dentate. Upper lflts c. 2 × 1·5 cm., obovate-oblong to oblong, subsessile; terminal lflt similar, on petiolule up to 7 mm. long. Scapes stout, pilose, up to 15 cm. or more long, bracts of one or more pairs. Heads c. 4 cm. diam. including spines; spines pale brown, sts tinged with red; bractlets ± 6 mm. long. Cupules turbinate, slightly flattened, pilose, angles thickened. Sepals about ovate-oblong, pilose below. Stamens 2, anthers white. Stigma plumose.

DIST.: N. Sandy places on shores of Cook Strait. S. Sand-dunes at head of Otago Harbour.

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