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NZ Plants
Catagonium nitens
Family: Catagoniaceae
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Plants
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Creeping stems with branches
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Young stem with leaves
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Older stems with flattened rows of leaves
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Leaves
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Sporophyte plant with steta (stalk) and capsule
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Perichaetial bracts around the base of the seta
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Capsule with a long neck
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Capsule with inner and outer peristome teeth
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Catagonium nitens forms silky, glossy yellowish-green patches consisting of slender shoots that often taper to fine threads. Leaves have a sharp, recurved tip and are boat-shaped, often fitting into one another giving the impression of one continuous ribbon.
Widespread in New Zealand on dry earth banks and rocks.
