Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Coxella Cheeseman & Hemsl.

Coxella Cheesem. et Hemsl., 1911

Infl. of several umbels paniculately arranged on branches of stout peduncle. Involucral bracts few; calyx-teeth evident; petals white. Fr. broad-oblong in outline, much dorsally compressed, ± equally 5-winged. Mericarps, one 3- the other 2-(3)-winged. Vittae rather large, inconspicuous, often 3 commissural, 2 lateral. Seed sulcate. Erect glab. perennial herb with pinnately decompound lvs and linear, somewhat flaccid, non-pungent segs. Genus known only from a singly sp. of Chatham Is, closely related to Aciphylla.

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