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That has not a spirally-twisted keel, but the structure is indicated both by the circinnate apex of the style, and by a slight curl at the summit of the keel.] 172 [C. OLEIFOLIUM (Hook.
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003
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Polypodium) which, according to Doctor Hillebrand (Flora of the Hawaiian Islands), "sustains its extraordinary length by the circinnate tips which twine round the branches of neighboring shrubs or trees."] [Footnote 256: _Kolea_.
Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula Nathaniel Bright Emerson 1877
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That has not a spirally-twisted keel, but the structure is indicated both by the circinnate apex of the style, and by a slight curl at the summit of the keel.] [** C. OLEIFOLIUM (Hook.
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia Thomas Mitchell 1823
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circinate
April 14, 2011