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Desmoschoenus spiralis (A.Rich.) Hook.f.

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(A.Rich.) Hook.f.
A.Rich.
Hook.f.
1853
272
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species
Desmoschoenus spiralis

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spiralis

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Desmoschoenus spiralis (A.Rich.) Hook.f.

2n = 30

Desmoschoenus spiralis (A.Rich.) Hook.f.

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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Desmoschoenus spiralis (A.Rich.) Hook.f.
Desmoschoenus spiralis (A.Rich.) Hook.f.
Desmoschoenus spiralis (A.Rich.) Hook.f.
Desmoschoenus spiralis (A.Rich.) Hook.f.
Desmoschoenus spiralis (A.Rich.) Hook.f.
Desmoschoenus spiralis (A.Rich.) Hook.f.
Desmoschoenus spiralis (A.Rich.) Hook.f.
Desmoschoenus spiralis (A.Rich.) Hook.f.
Desmoschoenus spiralis (A.Rich.) Hook.f.
Desmoschoenus spiralis (A.Rich.) Hook.f.

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Desmoschoenus spiralis (A.Rich.) Hook.f.
New Zealand

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c545bd52-7cf2-42c9-bcfb-5161d09cbb60
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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
14 April 2010
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