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Dysphania pusilla. Parahia.

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Chenopodium pusillum

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parahiapanamata [Taylor - doubtful] 

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These straggly perennial herbs were the main weeds of kūmara crops in pre-European gardens. (G. Harris, pers comm.)

' The panamata, paraihia [sic], is a diminutive kind of spinach, with a very dark leaf' (Taylor 1855)

Considered endemic, though it appears in modified habitats such as roadsides (Webb et al, 1988)

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"Parahia, a low spreading weed (Ctenopodium pusillum) [sic.], is particularly plentiful at Taupo." (Colenso 1879)

See also Einadia allanii.

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28 May 2007
22 June 2020
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