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Carex pterocarpa Petrie

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Carex pterocarpa Petrie, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 31: 353 (1899)
Carex pterocarpa Petrie

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Endemic
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New Zealand
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Petrie
Petrie
1899
353
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Carex pterocarpa Petrie
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Carex pterocarpa

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pterocarpa

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Carex pterocarpa Petrie

Tufts squat, coarse-leaved, pale green, 2-7 cm high; rhizome short, woody. Stems almost hidden by dark brown leaf-sheaths. Inflorescence an ovate, brownish head ± 7 × 7 mm with 2-4 congested sessile spikes. Male flowers at tip of spike. Utricles ± papillose, winged. Stigmas 2.

Carex pterocarpa Petrie

Shortly rhizomatous; tufts squat, coarse-lvd, pale green, 2–7 cm. tall. Rhizome c. 2 mm. diam., woody, covered by fibrous remains of lf-sheaths. Culms 2–3–(5) cm. tall, < lvs and almost entirely hidden by lf-sheaths, triquetrous, scabrid; basal sheaths grey-brown or chestnut. Lvs 2–6 cm. × 1–3 mm., often almost distichously arranged, channelled, coriac., margins and keel minutely scabrid, tapering to a ± acute tip; sheaths dull brown, membr., ± = lamina in length. Infl. an ovate, triangular, brownish head, c. 7 × 7 mm., with 2–4 congested spikes, the lowermost rarely subtended by a lf-like bract. Spikes androgynous, 4–6 mm. long, male fls at top of spike, very rarely at base. Glumes ± = utricles, ovate, acute, membr., midrib short, green, keel of lowermost glumes occ. scabrid. Utricles c. 3 × 2 mm., plano-convex, elliptic-ovoid, ± papillose, nerved, dark brown with pale brown conspicuous wings, margins strongly scabrid; beak narrow, < 1 mm. long with a bifid oblique orifice; stipe very minute. Stigmas 2. Nut c. 1.5 mm. long, biconvex, smooth, brown; styles persistent.

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Carex thompsonii Petrie 1886
Carex pterocarpa Petrie
Carex thomsonii Petrie
Carex pterocarpa Petrie

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Carex pterocarpa Petrie
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0e428317-7dc4-470e-8a90-c46b4348e324
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1 January 2000
27 June 2012
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