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Carex secta Boott

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Carex secta Boott in Hooker, Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 281 (1853)
Carex secta Boott

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Endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region

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Boott
Boott
1853
281
ICN
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species
Carex secta

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secta

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Carex secta Boott

2n = c. 70
2n = c. 70 (69–70)

Carex secta Boott

Large harshly scabrid tussocks on tall trunk-like bases. Stems and leaves drooping. Spikes light brown, sessile male flowers at top. Utricles dark brown, smooth, shining. Stigmas 2.
Stems to 1 m high. Leaves to 7 mm wide. Inflorescence a loose drooping panicle to 45 cm long with many long slender branches.
Culms 25–100 cm. × 1–2 mm. Lvs 1.5–7 mm. wide. Infl. a loosely branched, drooping panicle up to 45 cm. long, with pale brown spikes mostly clustered towards the end of the slender branchlets.

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Carex appressa var. secta (Boot) Kük. 1909
Carex secta Boott
Carex paniculata var. secta (Boot) Cheeseman 1884
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Carex virgata var. secta (Boot) Hook.f. 1864
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Carex secta Boott
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
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New Zealand
Gisborne Land District
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New Zealand
Hawke's Bay Land District
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New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
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New Zealand
Nelson Land District
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New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
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New Zealand
Otago Land District
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New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
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New Zealand
Southland Land District
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New Zealand
Taranaki Land District
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New Zealand
Wellington Land District
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New Zealand
Westland Land District

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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
23 May 2013
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