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Published In: Revisio Generum Plantarum 1: 264. 1891. (5 Nov 1891) (Revis. Gen. Pl.) Name publication detailView in BotanicusView in Biodiversity Heritage Library
 

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Nomenclature:

Tetragonia tetragonoides (Pall.) O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 1: 264 (1891). Demidovia tetragonoides Pall., Enum. Hort. Demidof 150 (1781). Tetragonia expansa Murray, Comment. Gotting. 6: 13, t. 5 (1783) nom. illegit. Type: Described from cultivated material in Moscow of presumably American Origin.

Common name:

New Zealand Spinach; רבועה שרועה

Habitat:

Cultivated but sometimes escaped from cultivation. Sharon Plain.

Area distribution:

Native of Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Japan and the Pacific Islands.

Notes:

             Introduced plant, cultivated as a vegetable.


 

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      Annual, succulent herb, up to 1 m. Stems erect, procumbent or trailing, thick, terete or slightly angular. Leaves 1.5-10 x 1-7.5 cm., ovate-rhombic to deltoid, obtuse or acuminate, cuneate and more or less decurrent into the petiol at base; petiole thick, 0.5-2.5 cm. long. Flowers solitary or 2-3 together, axillary, subsessile. Calyx 3-5, usually 4 unequally-lobed, green outside, yellow-green inside, lobes 2-3 mm. long. Stamens 4-22. Capsule 5-10 mm., smooth, turbinate, subtruncate, crowned with 2-5 horned, 4-10 seeded. Fl. April-May.

 
 
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