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Schoenus nitens (R.Br.) Roem. & Schult.

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Schoenus nitens (R.Br.) Roem. & Schult. (1817)
Schoenus nitens (R.Br.) Roem. & Schult.

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Indigenous, non-endemic
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New Zealand
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(R.Br.) Roem. & Schult.
R.Br.
Roem. & Schult.
1817
ICN
species
Schoenus nitens

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nitens

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Schoenus nitens (R.Br.) Roem. & Schult.

Rhizome long, creeping, woody, up to 1.5 mm. diam., loosely ensheathed by large, membr., imbricating scales. Culms wiry, erect, striated, unbranched, in dense tufts or ± distant along the rhizome. Upper lvs alternate, rigidly setaceous, semi-terete, margins rarely scabrid towards lf-tip; basal lvs reduced to red-purple, grooved, mucronate sheaths. Infl. terminal, capitate with crowded sessile spikelets or a solitary spikelet; subtending bract > infl. Spikelets 2–3-fld. Glumes 5–7, occ. appearing almost spirally arranged because of twisting of rhachilla, broadly ovate, 2–3 lowest smaller, empty. Hypog. bristles 6, us. > nut, yellow-brown and scabrid towards the tip, often branched and very feathery at the base with long white hairs. Stamens 3. Style-branches 3. Nut ovoid or elliptical-oblong, smooth, shining, surface cells very minute, angles no much thickened.
Culms (1)–5–25–(40) cm. long, slightly > 0.5 mm. diam. Lvs < culms. Infl. of (2)–4–∞ spikelets. Spikelets (2)–3–4–(5) mm. long. Glumes obtuse, bright chestnut-brown with green median nerve. Nut c. 1.5 mm. long, light grey-brown to red-brown.

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Chaetospora nitens R.Br.
Schoenus nitens (R.Br.) Roem. & Schult.
Schoenus nitens (R.Br.) Roem. & Schult.
Schoenus nitens (R.Br.) Roem. & Schult.
Schoenus nitens (R.Br.) Roem. & Schult.
Schoenus nitens (R.Br.) Roem. & Schult.
Schoenus nitens (R.Br.) Roem. & Schult.
Schoenus nitens (R.Br.) Roem. & Schult.
Schoenus nitens (R.Br.) Roem. & Schult.
Schoenus nitens (R.Br.) Roem. & Schult.
Schoenus nitens (R.Br.) Roem. & Schult.
Schoenus nitens (R.Br.) Roem. & Schult.
Schoenus nitens (R.Br.) Roem. & Schult.
Schoenus nitens (R.Br.) Roem. & Schult.
Schoenus nitens (R.Br.) Roem. & Schult.
Schoenus nitens (R.Br.) Roem. & Schult.
Schoenus nitens (R.Br.) Roem. & Schult.
Schoenus nitens (R.Br.) Roem. & Schult.
Schoenus nitens (R.Br.) Roem. & Schult.
Schoenus nitens (R.Br.) Roem. & Schult. var. nitens
Schoenus nitens (R.Br.) Roem. & Schult.
Scirpus nitens (R.Br.) Boeck.
Schoenus nitens (R.Br.) Roem. & Schult.

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Schoenus nitens (R.Br.) Roem. & Schult.
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14f15f87-cfe8-4e35-8ad7-c7ba97e7f1ab
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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
6 October 2008
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