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Carex dipsacea Berggr.

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Berggr.
Berggr.
1878
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Carex dipsacea Berggr.
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Carex dipsacea

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dipsacea

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Leaves reddish or green, (25-) 30-45 (-60) cm long, 1.5-2.2 mm broad, conduplicate or subplicate, scabrid on the margins and upper surfaces, basal sheaths short, 2-6 ( -10) cm long. Culms equalling or longer than the leaves (10-) 30-50 cm long, 0.5-1 mm wide, trigonous, scabrid on the angles above or subterete and smooth. Inflorescence 8-20 cm long, lowest internode 2-16 cm long, lowest bract sheath 1-2 cm long. Spikes 4-5 ( -6), terminal male, 1-2 cm long, slender, on a peduncle up to 1 cm long or subsessile, remainder female, lowest 1-1.5 cm long, upper shorter, 0.4 cm wide, cylindric, sessile or the lowest on peduncles up to 1 cm long. Glumes equalling the utricles, oblong, obtuse to subacute to shortly acuminate, pale to red brown with a broad hyaline margin, and a pale midrib not reaching the margin or else produced into a short mucro up to 0.2 mm long. Utricles 2-2.2 (-2.5) mm long, 1.3-1.8 mm wide, ovoid ellipsoid to broadly ellipsoid to suborbicular, planoconvex or unequally biconvex, pale below, dark brown above, smooth and shining, margins scabrid on upper half, beak absent, crura up to 0.2 mm long, readily abraded.
Folia rubescentia vel viridia, (25-) 30-45 (-60) cm longa, 1.5-2.2 mm lata, canaliculata, conduplicata vel subplicata, culmi folia aequantes vel excedentes, inflorescentia 8-20 cm longa, spicae 4-5 ( -6), spica terminalis mascula, ceterae femineae, infima 1-1.5 cm longa, superiores breviores, 0.4 cm latae, sessiles vel ima cum pedunculo ad 1 cm longo. Glumae utriculos aequantes, oblongae, obtusae vel breviter acuminatae, costa nanad marginemattingens vel in brevemmucronem ad 0.2 mm longum producta. Utriculi 2-2.2 mm longi, 1.3-1.8 mm latiovoideo-ellipsoidei, late ellipsoidei. vel suborbiculares, pallidi infra, supra fusco-brunnei, laeves nitentesque, scabridi ad apicem in marginibus, rostrum 0, crura ad 0.2 mm longa, caduca. Stigmata 2. .

Carex dipsacea Berggr.

Harsh, light green or reddish tufts to 75 cm high. Female spikes 2-5, ± distant, ± sessile, ± 2.5 cm × 5 mm, red-brown. Glumes obtuse, membranous, midrib often not reaching margin. Utricles crowded, spreading when ripe, margins usually scabrid. Stigmas 2.

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Carex dipsacea Berggr.
Carex dipsacea Berggr.
Carex dipsacea Berggr.
Carex dipsacea Berggr.
Carex dipsacea Berggr.
Carex dipsacea Berggr.
Carex dipsacea Berggr.
Carex dipsacea Berggr.
Carex dipsacea Berggr.
Carex dipsacea Berggr.
Carex dipsacea Berggr.
Carex dipsacea Berggr.
Carex tahoata Hamlin
Carex dipsacea Berggr.

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Carex dipsacea Berggr.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Carex dipsacea Berggr.
New Zealand
Gisborne Land District
Carex dipsacea Berggr.
New Zealand
Hawke's Bay Land District
Carex dipsacea Berggr.
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
Carex dipsacea Berggr.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Carex dipsacea Berggr.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Carex dipsacea Berggr.
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Carex dipsacea Berggr.
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Carex dipsacea Berggr.
New Zealand
Southland Land District
Carex dipsacea Berggr.
New Zealand
Taranaki Land District
Carex dipsacea Berggr.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Carex dipsacea Berggr.
New Zealand
Westland Land District
New Zealand
Hawke's Bay Land District
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
New Zealand
Wellington Land District

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1 January 2000
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