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Carex subdola Boott

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New Zealand
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Boott
Boott
1845
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Carex subdola Boott
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Carex subdola

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subdola

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Carex subdola Boott

Rigid rhizomatous tufts to 60 cm high. Spikes 4-8, pedunculate, ± approximate, ± 5 cm × 5-7 mm. Glumes dark red-brown, obviously awned. Utricles cinnamon-brown; beak < 0.5 mm long. Stigmas 2.

Carex subdola Boott

Rhizomatous; tufts rather rigid. Rhizome 2–4 mm. diam., hard, woody. Culms (8)–22–50–(60) cm. × (1.0)–1.5–2.5 mm., trigonous, lightly scabrid below infl.; basal sheaths light brown, grey-brown or reddish brown. Lvs ∞, > culms, 2–4 mm. wide, double-folded, ± erect, keel and margins of lamina sharply scabrid. Spikes 4–8, pedunculate, all ± approximate or the lowest more distant, terminal (1)–2–3 spikes male, the remainder female, often male at the tip, 3–5.5–(7.5) cm. × (4)–5–7 mm., lower spikes often with 1–2 secondary spikes at the base. Glumes < or ± = utricles, ovate-oblong, emarginate with a strongly scabrid awn to 6 mm. long, dark red-brown, coriac.; midrib broad, 3-nerved, green to later light brown. Utricles 3–4.5 × 2–2.5 mm., biconvex, rather compressed, ovoid, us. cinnamon-brown, with many distinct nerves on each face, smooth, tapering gradually towards the short beak, < 0.5 mm. long, orifice entire, slightly bidentate, occ. faintly scabrid; stipe slightly < 0.5 mm. long. Stigmas 2. Nut 1.5–2 mm. long, plano-convex, oblong or ovoid, brown.

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Carex subdola Boott
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Carex subdola Boott
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
Carex subdola Boott
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Carex subdola Boott
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Carex subdola Boott
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Carex subdola Boott
New Zealand
Southland Land District
Carex subdola Boott
New Zealand
Taranaki Land District
Carex subdola Boott
New Zealand
Wellington Land District

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2f15c5fa-935a-4387-9bfe-6c77af754cee
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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
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