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

HEMIPHUES HOOK. f., 1847

Umbels simple, small, few-fld; calyx minutely 5-toothed or teeth obsolete. Petals 0-(5), stamens and styles 2. Fr. obliquely ovoid by abortion of one mericarp; fertile mericarp obscurely 5-ribbed, somewhat compressed, convex on dorsal surface; vittae 0. Small herb with creeping branching stems forming compact patches. Lvs entire, of oblong to spathulate order, narrowed to sheathing base. A few rather ill-defined spp. of Australia, Tasmania, N.Z., closely related to Actinotus.

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