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Carex cockayneana Kük.

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Threat status: Not threatened
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Endemic
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New Zealand
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Kük.
Kük.
1906
cockayniana
It was published as cockayniana but cockayneana is correct under the ICBN Art. 60C.1 (c).
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Carex cockayneana Kük.
species
Carex cockayneana

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cockayneana

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Carex cockayneana Kük.

Stems to 60 cm long, often drooping. Leaves > stems; sheaths red-brown. Female spikes c. 5, ± distant, ± pedunculate, to 7 × ± 1 cm, red-brown or greenish-brown. Utricles scarcely nerved when mature. Stigmas 3.

Carex cockayneana Kük.

Culms 15–60 cm. × 1–2 mm., smooth, trigonous, often drooping; basal sheaths dark red-brown. Lvs > culms, up to 80 cm. long, 3–6.5 mm. wide, double-folded, margins of upper half sharply scabrid. Infl. of (2)–4–8 ± distant, red-brown or light brown spikes, the upper sessile, the lower drooping on filiform peduncles; terminal 1–(2) spikes entirely male or with few to ∞ female fls at the top, remaining spikes female with a few ± distant male fls at the base, 1–7 × 0.5–1 cm. Glumes (excluding awn) ± = or slightly > utricles, ovate-lanceolate, acute and entire or slightly emarginate, membr., light red-brown with a thickened green midrib produced to a slightly scabrid awn 1–2 mm. long. Utricles 3–4 × c. 1 mm., unequally biconvex, fusiform, conspicuously costate when immature, turgid, smooth and slightly spreading when mature, yellowish brown, margins glab.; beak narrow, 0.5–1 mm. long, very shortly bifid, orifice slightly scabrid; stipe < 0.5 mm. long. Stigmas 3. Nut 1.5–2 mm. long, trigonous, obovoid-ellipsoid, dark brown.

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Carex cinnamomea Cheesem.
Carex cockayneana Kük.
Carex cockayneana Kük.
Carex cockayneana Kük.
Carex cockayneana Kük.
Carex cockayneana Kük.
Carex cockayneana Kük.
Carex cockayneana Kük.
Carex cockayneana Kük.
Carex cockayneana Kük.
Carex cockayneana Kük.
Carex cockayneana Kük.
Carex forsteri var. cockayniana (Kük.) Kük.
Carex cockayneana Kük.

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Carex cockayneana Kük.
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
Carex cockayneana Kük.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Carex cockayneana Kük.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Carex cockayneana Kük.
New Zealand
Southland Land District
Carex cockayneana Kük.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Carex cockayneana Kük.
New Zealand
Westland Land District

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6c181073-49a8-4775-804b-bbef3411b398
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
10 July 2013
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