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Ficinia spiralis (A.Rich.) Muasya & de Lange

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Ficinia spiralis (A.Rich.) Muasya & de Lange, New Zealand J. Bot. 48: 37-38 (2010)
Ficinia spiralis (A.Rich.) Muasya & de Lange

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Endemic
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New Zealand
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(A.Rich.) Muasya & de Lange
A.Rich.
Muasya & de Lange
2010
37-38
ICN
species
Ficinia spiralis

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spiralis

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Plants yellow-green, golden when dry, with stiff culms and very harsh lvs. Rhizome 1–1.5 cm. diam., shortly creeping, very hard and woody, covered by fibrous strands from decaying lf-sheaths. Culms ∞, 30–90 cm. × 2–4 mm., erect, obtusely trigonous, very lfy at the base. Lvs ∞, ± = culms, 2–5 mm. wide, often curved, coriac., linear, concavo-convex or ± channelled, margins and keel sharply denticulate, narrowed to a long, trigonous tip; sheaths submembr., much broader than lvs, with ∞, red-brown veins. Infl. 7–20–(30) cm. long, a very congested panicle of c. 12 confluent clusters of sessile Spikelets, each cluster subtended by a rigid lf-like bract adnate to the axis and broadening at base to an open sheath, lower bracts much exceeding infl. Spikelets 4–5 mm. long, dark red-brown. Glumes coriac., rigid, broadly ovate, obtuse, distinctly nerved, finely mucronulate, the lower ones ± keeled. Nut 2.5–4 × 2–2.5 mm., broadly obovoid, concavo-convex, compressed, obtuse, dark brown, smooth and shining.

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Anthophyllum urvillei Steud.
Ficinia spiralis (A.Rich.) Muasya & de Lange
Desmoschoenus spiralis (A.Rich.) Hook.f.
Ficinia spiralis (A.Rich.) Muasya & de Lange
Ficinia spiralis (A.Rich.) Muasya & de Lange
Ficinia spiralis (A.Rich.) Muasya & de Lange
Ficinia spiralis (A.Rich.) Muasya & de Lange
Ficinia spiralis (A.Rich.) Muasya & de Lange
Ficinia spiralis (A.Rich.) Muasya & de Lange
Ficinia spiralis (A.Rich.) Muasya & de Lange
Ficinia spiralis (A.Rich.) Muasya & de Lange
Ficinia spiralis (A.Rich.) Muasya & de Lange
Isolepis spiralis A.Rich.
Ficinia spiralis (A.Rich.) Muasya & de Lange
Scirpus frondosus Banks & Sol. ex Boeckeler
Ficinia spiralis (A.Rich.) Muasya & de Lange
Scirpus spiralis (A.Rich.) Druce
Ficinia spiralis (A.Rich.) Muasya & de Lange

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New Zealand
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Canterbury Land District
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Gisborne Land District
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Hawke's Bay Land District
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Marlborough Land District
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Nelson Land District
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North Auckland Land District
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Otago Land District
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South Auckland Land District
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Southland Land District
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Taranaki Land District
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Wellington Land District
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Westland Land District

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4e95e034-9203-4604-8f16-46040e78b3bb
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14 April 2010
18 July 2011
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