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Carex hectorii Petrie

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Carex hectorii Petrie, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 27: 405 (1894 [1895])
Carex hectorii Petrie

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New Zealand
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Petrie
Petrie
1894
1895
405
hectori
The classical Latin name is Hector, gen. Hectoris, not “Hectorus”. This being so, genitive epithets “hectori” would be correctable to "hectorii", especially if honouring modern persons with the family name Hector, "Hectorii" is to be preferred epithet. For species (if any) commemorating the ancient Greek hero, hectoris would be preferable.
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Carex hectorii Petrie
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Carex hectorii

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hectorii

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Carex hectorii Petrie

Blue-green tufts to ± 15 cm high with stems hidden among plano-convex leaves; rhizome short. Inflorescence 0.5-1.5 cm long, of 3-4 close-packed, ± sessile, red-brown spikes. Utricles many-nerved, later nerveless, dark brown. Stigmas 3.

Carex hectorii Petrie

Shortly rhizomatous. Culms (2)–6–12 cm. × c. 0.5 mm., hidden in the light brown lf-sheaths. Lvs > culms, 0.5–1.5 mm. wide, blue-green, erect and rigid, lamina plano-convex at the base but flattening or occ. subtrigonous towards the subacute tip, margins strongly scabrid near the tip. Infl. 0.5–1.5 cm. long, of 3–4 contiguous, sessile or very shortly pedunculate red-brown spikes, subtended by lf-like rigid bracts > infl.; terminal spike male; remaining spikes female. Glumes slightly < utricles, lanceolate, acuminate or cuspidate, membr., brown, with a pale green midrib and membr. margins. Utricles 2.5–3 × 1.5–2 mm., trigonous, elliptic-ovoid, spreading, conspicuously many-nerved when immature, shining and ± smooth when mature, dark brown; beak c. 0.5 mm. long, slender, acutely bifid, margins often ciliate-serrate above; stipe short. Stigmas 3. Nut trigonous.

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Carex hectorii Petrie
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Carex hectorii Petrie
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Carex hectorii Petrie

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Carex hectorii Petrie
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Carex hectorii Petrie
New Zealand
Southland Land District

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1 January 2000
7 June 2022
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