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Carex obtusifolia (Heenan) K.A.Ford

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Carex obtusifolia (Heenan) K.A.Ford in Global Carex Group, Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 179: 34 (2015)
Carex obtusifolia (Heenan) K.A.Ford

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Endemic
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New Zealand
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(Heenan) K.A.Ford
Heenan
K.A.Ford
2015
34
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species
Carex obtusifolia

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obtusifolia

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Small tufts to small tussocks, laxly to densely caespitose, sometimes with fine creeping rhizomes. Culms glabrous, trigonous, at flowering similar in length to leaves, at maturity much longer than leaves, (50-)100-250(-400) × 0.3-0.4(-0.6) mm; basal bracts light brown to yellow- brown, dull, 2—7 mm long. Leaves plano-convex or concavo-convex, rigid, linear, strongly nerved on abaxial surface, erect or ascending, (45—)60— 220(—300) × 0.4—0.5 mm; apex obtuse and nerves weak or absent; margins scabrous when young, often becoming glabrous when mature. Spikes oblong, 15-20 mm long; female flowers proximal, 3—7, internodes 1.5—3 mm long; male flowers distal, 3— 5. Glumes < utricle, deciduous, elliptic-lanceolate to lanceolate, 3.5-4.5(-5) × 1.5-2 mm; midrib green; apex subacute to obtuse; margins membranous. Utricles trigonous, elliptic to lanceolate, yellowgreen, yellow-brown, or light brown, lateral nerves present but not conspicuous, 5—6.2 × 0.9—1.1 mm; stipe and beak both narrow, each c. 1.5 mm long; rachilla exserted beyond utricle, 5.3—6.5 mm long. Nut trigonous, narrow-elliptic to linear, pale brown, dull, (3-)3.2-3.9 × 0.8-1.1 mm. FL Nov-Dec, FT Dec-May.
Unciniae nervosae affinis a qua diffcrt foliis, culmis, spicis, utriculisque angustioribus; glumis minoribus, quam utriculis brevioribus; internodiis inter flosculos longioribus; nuce longa angustaque.

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Carex obtusifolia (Heenan) K.A.Ford
Carex obtusifolia (Heenan) K.A.Ford
Carex obtusifolia (Heenan) K.A.Ford
Carex obtusifolia (Heenan) K.A.Ford
Carex obtusifolia (Heenan) K.A.Ford
Carex obtusifolia (Heenan) K.A.Ford
Carex obtusifolia (Heenan) K.A.Ford
Uncinia obtusifolia Heenan
Carex obtusifolia (Heenan) K.A.Ford
Uncinia obtusifolia Heenan
Carex obtusifolia (Heenan) K.A.Ford

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Carex obtusifolia (Heenan) K.A.Ford
New Zealand
Carex obtusifolia (Heenan) K.A.Ford
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Carex obtusifolia (Heenan) K.A.Ford
New Zealand
Hawke's Bay Land District
Carex obtusifolia (Heenan) K.A.Ford
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
Carex obtusifolia (Heenan) K.A.Ford
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Carex obtusifolia (Heenan) K.A.Ford
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Carex obtusifolia (Heenan) K.A.Ford
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Carex obtusifolia (Heenan) K.A.Ford
New Zealand
Southland Land District
Carex obtusifolia (Heenan) K.A.Ford
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Carex obtusifolia (Heenan) K.A.Ford
New Zealand
Westland Land District
New Zealand
Wellington Land District

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17a4b27c-015f-4e76-845f-91f9a225def6
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19 August 2015
20 August 2015
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