Contact: Steve Wagstaff
wagstaffs@landcareresearch.co.nz
Pensoft Publishers
Caption: These are the morphological characteristics of Empodisma robustum. A) Vegetative shoot with attached leaves and flowers (actual size) B) Rhizomes with emerging vegetative shoots (2.5× actual size) C) Vegetative shoot with attached pistillate flower D) Pistillate flower with attached bracts E) Gynoecium F) Mature nut G) Vegetative shoot with attached staminate spikelet H) Staminate flower with attached bracts I) Staminate flower. Scale bar = 1 mm.
Credit: Steve Wagstaff and Beverly Clarkson
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