New Zealand Journal of Botany abstracts

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Imbricate sepals in Clematis

E. J. GODLEY

Botany Division, DSIR, Private Bag, Christchurch, New Zealand

Abstract The sepals in Clematis are usually described as valvate (e.g., Milne-Redhead & Turrill 1952, Allan 1961), or induplicate-valvate (Hutchinson 1973). In other words the sepals in the flower-bud do not overlap, but meet at their margins which may turn inwards. This is seen in Clematis vitalba L., the lecto-type of the genus, which is adventive to New Zealand, or in C. gentianoides, endemic to Tasmania (Fig. la).

Received 10 August 1977
New Zealand Journal of Botany, 1977, Vol. 15: 775-6.

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