Acaena L.

Flowers in long interrupted spikes or in heads with further flowers on the peduncle below the head. Tufted herbs without stolons (except sometimes in A. x anserovina)

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Flowers in long interrupted spikes. Plants never stoloniferous

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Leaflets densely evenly villous underneath, less so on upper surface

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Calyx prickles unequal, 3–6 longer than others, scarcely thickened basally. Leaflets obovate, 8–20 mm long, serrate. Stamens 3–5. Erect or ascending herb up to 10–50 cm high. Widespread. Grasslands Acaena ovina

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Calyx prickles ± equal, slender. Leaflets ovate to oblong, (5)8–25 mm long, serrate. Stamens 3–7. Erect or ascending herb c. 50 cm high. Widespread. Grasslands and open forest Acaena agnipila