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Carex appressa R.Br.

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Indigenous, non-endemic
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New Zealand
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R.Br.
R.Br.
1810
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Carex appressa R.Br.
species
Carex appressa

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appressa

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Carex appressa R.Br.

Stout, harshly scabrid, rigid tussocks to ± 80 cm high. Inflorescence an erect stiff panicle 6-25 cm long with appressed branches ± 3 cm long. Spikes numerous, sessile, red-brown, male flowers at top. Utricles many-nerved. Stigmas 2.

Carex appressa R.Br.

Rhizomatous; stout, harsh and rigid, dark green. Culms (20)–30–75–(100) cm. × 3–6.5 mm., acutely trigonous, angles strongly scabrid above; basal sheaths shining, light to dark grey-brown. Lvs us. > culms, 3–7 mm. wide, channelled, stiff, tips almost pungent in young lvs, margins and keel very scabrid. Infl. an elongated erect, stiff panicle 6–25 × 1–2 cm., interrupted below, branchlets us. < 3.5 cm. long, more crowded above, appressed to infl. axis. Spikes , 5–6 mm. long, red-brown, ovoid, androgynous, male fls terminal. Glumes slightly < utricles, ovate, acute, or with a short scabrid mucro, brown with lighter brown midrib. Utricles c. 2.5–3.5 × 1.5 mm., plano-convex, conspicuously many-nerved, dark brown; tapered to a beak 1–1.5 mm. long, margins distinctly toothed, orifice bifid; sharply constricted to a narrow stipe 2–4 mm. long. Stigmas 2. Nut c. 1.5 mm. long, plano-convex, oblong-obovoid, light or dark brown.

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Carex appressa R.Br.
Carex appressa R.Br.
Carex appressa R.Br.
Carex appressa R.Br.
Carex appressa R.Br.
Carex appressa R.Br.
Carex appressa R.Br.
Carex appressa R.Br.
Carex appressa R.Br.
Carex appressa R.Br.
Carex appressa R.Br.
Carex appressa R.Br.
Carex paniculata var. appressa (R.Br.) Cheeseman 1884
Carex appressa R.Br.

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Carex appressa R.Br.
Australia
New South Wales
Carex appressa R.Br.
Australia
Queensland
Carex appressa R.Br.
Australia
Tasmania
Carex appressa R.Br.
Australia
Victoria
Carex appressa R.Br.
New Caledonia
Carex appressa R.Br.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Carex appressa R.Br.
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
Carex appressa R.Br.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Carex appressa R.Br.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Carex appressa R.Br.
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Carex appressa R.Br.
New Zealand
Southland Land District
Carex appressa R.Br.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District

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c9ee320d-f57a-4cfd-908a-3941c3f0d496
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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
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