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Carex riparia Curtis

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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Curtis
Curtis
1783
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Carex riparia Curtis
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Carex riparia

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riparia

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Carex riparia Curtis

Tufted, to 90 cm high. Rhizome far-extending, stout with fibrous grey-brown scales. Stems sharply 3-angled, scabrid on angles just below inflorescence. Leaves > stems, to 15 mm wide, rigid, erect, channelled to double-folded, blue-green, minute cross-veinlets very distinct when dry; sheaths very long, bright reddish to whitish, distinctly septate-nodulose. Inflorescence with longer, narrow, leaf-like bracts below; spikes numerous, erect, brown. Male spikes 3-4, crowded, 2-6 cm × 5-10 mm, tapered above to a point; glumes very narrow-lanceolate, acuminate or with excurrent midrib. Female spikes 2-4, occasionally male at top, 6-11 × 1-1.2 cm, fusiform, upper sessile, lower pedunculate; glumes > utricles, lanceolate with midrib long-excurrent. Utricles 5-5.5 × 2 mm, with numerous fine nerves, glabrous, dull grey-brown, subtrigonous, ovate, gradually tapered to a bifid beak ± 1 mm long. Stigmas 3. Nut oblong-ovoid, trigonous, shortly stipitate.

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Carex riparia Curtis
Carex riparia Curtis

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Carex riparia Curtis
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Carex riparia Curtis
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Carex riparia Curtis
United Kingdom

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030902bc-ada5-4648-ad23-a7e7f0c887fd
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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
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