- Taxon
- Gallery
- ≡ Haloragis micrantha (Thunb.) Siebold & Zucc., Flora Japonica 1: 25 (1845)
- = Haloragis tenella Brong. (1829)
- = Haloragis minima Colenso, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 18: 259 (1885 [1886])
Slender glab. herb up to 10 cm. tall, rooting from lowest nodes. Stems many, obscurely tetragonous; lvs opp., almost sessile, 3–10 mm. long, ovate, membr., margin cartilaginous with 4–5 incisures on each side. Infl. a terminal raceme from which bracts and bracteoles fall early leaving fls in opp. pairs. Fls reddish, drooping, c. 1·5 mm. long, strongly protandrous; sepals broadly triangular, = ovary; petals hooded, without hairs, > ovary; stamens 8; ovary 8-angled, globose, constricted below sepals; styles short, erect, cylindrical, stigmas of long multicellular hairs. Fr. dark red, c. 0·5 mm. long, with 8 vertical ribs, faces between ribs concave and smooth; pericarp not hardened, 1 loculus with us. 1 seed.
[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1 as Haloragis micrantha (Thunb.) Siebold & Zucc.]
Category | Number |
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Indigenous (Non-endemic) | 1 |
Total | 1 |