{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}} {{Speciesbox |image = MA I945741 TePapa Acaena-emittens-BHMacmill full.jpg |genus = Acaena |species = emittens |authority = B.H.Macmill. }}

'''''Acaena emittens''''' is a species of perennial plant limited to scrubland and forest clearings at an altitude of {{convert|450–1500|m|abbr=off}} in the central North Island of New Zealand. This species was first described by Bryony Hope Macmillan in 1989.

This plant has slender dark brown branches, growing prostrately, up to 50&nbsp;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.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Macmillan |first=B. H. |date=January 1989 |title=Acaena juvenca and Acaena emittens (Rosaceae) — two new species from New Zealand |url=https://rsnz.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1080/0028825X.1989.10410149 |journal=New Zealand Journal of Botany |language=en |volume=27 |issue=1 |pages=109–117 |doi=10.1080/0028825X.1989.10410149 |issn=0028-825X|doi-access=free }}</ref>

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emittens Category:Endemic flora of New Zealand Category:Plants described in 1989

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