Acaena emittens

Taxobox
name = "Acaena emittens"
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Rosales
familia = Rosaceae
subfamilia = Rosoideae
tribus = Sanguisorbeae
subtribus= Sanguisorbinae
genus = "Acaena"
species = "A. emittens"
binomial = "Acaena emittens"
binomial_authority = Macmillan, 1989

"Acaena emittens" is a species of perennial plant limited to scrubland and forest clearings at an altitude of 450-1500 m in central North Island, New Zealand.

This plant has slender dark brown branches, growing prostrately, up to 50 cm in length. Each branch ends in three distinctively rounded green leaflets which are hairy but not glaucous as in many of its congeners. This species is usually found within clearings in open forests of "Nothofagus" and in scrubland dominated by "Leptospermum scoparium". Flowering occurs from December to February with fruit being produced from January onwards.

References

*cite journal |quotes=no |url=http://www.rsnz.org/publish/nzjb/1989/11.php |title="Acaena juvenca" and "Acaena emittens" (Rosaceae) - two new species from New Zealand |journal=New Zealand Journal of Botany |volume=27 |year=1989 |author=B. H. Macmillan |pages=109–117