Astelia sect. Astelia
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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.52.4768 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/8C400110-7875-50D6-A8CA-4D92AF702040 |
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scientific name |
Astelia sect. Astelia |
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Note.
Low, compact, growth form (including cushion or turf forming taxa); leaves, linear, ensiform, or subulate; reduced inflorescences bearing few flowers; staminate flowers with short filaments (0.5-1.6 mm); pistillate flowers with long outer tepals (4.5-7.0 mm); ovary unilocular, long (4.3-8.3 mm); fruit ovoid or oblong; few or many seeds per fruit (<25), seeds short and narrow (1.1-2.0 × 0.5-1.3 mm).
Included taxa and distribution.
Australia Astelia alpina R.Br. var. alpina , Astelia alpina var. novae-hollandiae Skottsb. Indonesia (Papua Province), Papua New Guinea Astelia papuana Skottsb.. New Zealand Astelia linearis Hook.f. var. linearis , Astelia linearis var. novae-zelandiae Skottsb., Astelia subulata Cheeseman
Habitat.
Lowland (low latitudes) to sub-alpine (mid and higher latitudes) herb-fields particularly on wet substrates (seeps, swamps etc.).
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