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NZ Plants
Balantiopsis diplophylla var diplophylla
Family: Balantiopsidaceae
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Shoots
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Shoot, dorsal surface with each leaf folded to form a smaller upturned dorsal lobe.
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Dorsal lobes with marginal cilia
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Shoot, ventral surface with underleaves
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Underleaves
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Balantiopsis diplophylla var diplophylla has prostrate to erect many-branched stems. The colour of the leaves varies from a distinctive pale green to light brown and may be red when in exposed sites. Each leaf is sharply and unevenly folded into a smaller upper lamina which lies above a larger lower lamina; in both the margins bear cilia. The underleaves are bifid (2 lobes).
Found throughout New Zealand in damp to relatively dry sites often on clay soils.
