Download Copy a link to this page Cite this record

Carex flagellifera Colenso

Scientific name record
Names_Plants record source
Is NZ relevant
This is the current name
This record has collections
This record has descriptions
This is indigenous
Threat status: Not threatened
Show more

Click to collapse Details Info

Carex flagellifera Colenso, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 16: 342 (1884)
Carex flagellifera Colenso

Click to collapse Biostatus Info

Endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region

Click to collapse Nomenclature Info

Colenso
Colenso
1884
342
ICN
Carex flagellifera Colenso
species
Carex flagellifera

Click to collapse Classification Info

flagellifera

Click to collapse Vernacular names Info

Click to collapse Descriptions Info

Carex flagellifera Colenso

Dense green or red tufts to 1 m high. Stems often elongating to 2 m when mature. Female spikes c. 5, usually distant and pedunculate, erect, ± 3 cm × 4 mm, brown. Glumes red-brown with conspicuous paler midrib. Utricles usually almost nerveless and glabrous. Stigmas 2.

Carex flagellifera Colenso

Often densely tufted. Culms 35–75 cm. × 0.5–1 mm., or occ. slightly wider, close-packed, trigonous or subtrigonous, smooth or slightly scabrid for a short distance below infl., often elongating very much in fr. up to c. 180 cm. and becoming prostrate; basal sheaths dark brown, occ. tinged with red-purple, nerves ± distinct. Lvs ∞, us. > culms, 1.5–2.5–(4) mm. wide, bright shining green or reddish, spreading or drooping at the tips, channelled, margins sharply scabrid. Spikes 4–8; terminal 1–2–(3) spikes male, close together, slender; remaining spikes female, 1.5–3–(4) cm. × 3–5 mm., us. distant, us. pedunculate but ± erect, often male at the base, rarely male at the top also. Glumes ± = utricles, broadly ovate, us. obtuse, often with fimbriate margins, occ. almost emarginate, subcoriac., dark or light red-brown, occ. distinctly nerved, midrib distinct and thickened, conspicuously light brown, almost cream, produced to a short, slightly scabrid awn. Utricles 2–2.5–(3) × c. 1.5 mm., unequally biconvex, almost plano-convex, elliptic-ovoid, light brown at base, us. dark brown towards the top, smooth and shining, or faintly nerved on the more convex face, margins glab., rarely very slightly scabrid below beak; beak c. 0.4 mm. long, acutely bidentate, margins slightly scabrid; stipe c. 0.3 mm. long. Stigmas 2. Nut < 1.5 mm. long, biconvex, ovoid-oblong, dark brown.

Click to collapse Taxonomic concepts Info

Carex flagellifera Colenso
Carex flagellifera Colenso
Carex flagellifera Colenso
Carex flagellifera Colenso
Carex flagellifera Colenso
Carex flagellifera Colenso
Carex flagellifera Colenso
Carex flagellifera Colenso
Carex flagellifera Colenso
Carex flagellifera Colenso
Carex flagellifera Colenso
Carex flagellifera Colenso
Carex lucida Boott
Carex flagellifera Colenso

Click to collapse Collections Info

Carex flagellifera Colenso
[Not available]
Carex flagellifera Colenso
Australia
Carex flagellifera Colenso
New Zealand
Carex flagellifera Colenso
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Carex flagellifera Colenso
New Zealand
Gisborne Land District
Carex flagellifera Colenso
New Zealand
Hawke's Bay Land District
Carex flagellifera Colenso
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
Carex flagellifera Colenso
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Carex flagellifera Colenso
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Carex flagellifera Colenso
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Carex flagellifera Colenso
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Carex flagellifera Colenso
New Zealand
Southland Land District
Carex flagellifera Colenso
New Zealand
Taranaki Land District
Carex flagellifera Colenso
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Carex flagellifera Colenso
New Zealand
Westland Land District
Carex flagellifera Colenso
United Kingdom
England
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
New Zealand
Southland Land District
New Zealand
Wellington Land District

Click to collapse Metadata Info

d2cf4a32-93bc-4e80-bbfc-2dd3707df69e
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
24 December 2019
Click to go back to the top of the page
Top