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Schoenus apogon Roem. & Schult. (1817)
Schoenus apogon Roem. & Schult.

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region

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Roem. & Schult.
Roem. & Schult.
1817
ICN
Schoenus apogon Roem. & Schult.
species
Schoenus apogon

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apogon

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Schoenus apogon Roem. & Schult.

Culms ∞, densely tufted, rather flaccid, unbranched, glab. or occ. scabrid just below infl. Lvs 4–18 cm. long, very narrow-linear, acute, channelled, margins slightly scabrid; sheaths membr., reddish. Panicle of us. 2, distant or ± approximate fascicles, the terminal one us. with almost sessile, densely clustered spikelets, lower fascicles often with stalked, loosely clustered spikelets; bract subtending each fascicle lf-like, lowest bract us. overtopping whole infl. Glumes dark red-brown to almost black, us. with a paler centre, midrib often slightly scabrid, 1–3 lowermost glumes smaller, empty, often mucronate. Hypog. bristles 6, > nut. Stamens 3. Style-branches 3. Nut slightly < 1 mm. long, c. 0.5 mm. wide, elliptic-ovoid, almost globose, obtuse, apiculate, white, the 3 angles green or yellow.
Culms 7–40–(60) cm. × 0.5–1 mm. Lvs <, rarely = culms. Spikelets 4–6 mm. long, 2–3–(4)-fld. Glumes us. reddish, rarely cream near the midrib. Nut with surface cells conspicuous under a lens.

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Chaetospora imberis R.Br.
Schoenus apogon Roem. & Schult.
Schoenus apogon Roem. & Schult.
Schoenus apogon Roem. & Schult.
Schoenus apogon Roem. & Schult.
Schoenus apogon Roem. & Schult.
Schoenus apogon Roem. & Schult.
Schoenus apogon Roem. & Schult.
Schoenus apogon Roem. & Schult.
Schoenus apogon Roem. & Schult.
Schoenus apogon var. laxiflorus (Steud.) C.B.Clarke
Schoenus apogon Roem. & Schult.
Schoenus brownii Hook.f.
Schoenus apogon Roem. & Schult.
Schoenus imberis sensu (R.Br.) Poir.
Schoenus apogon Roem. & Schult.
Schoenus laxiflorus Steud.
Schoenus apogon Roem. & Schult.
Schoenus vacillans Kirk
Schoenus apogon Roem. & Schult.

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Schoenus apogon Roem. & Schult.
[Not available]
Schoenus apogon Roem. & Schult.
[Not available]
North Auckland
Schoenus apogon Roem. & Schult.
[Not available]
Ruahine-Cook
Schoenus apogon Roem. & Schult.
[Not available]
South Auckland

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215cdb6f-90f9-4b42-b4f6-41e8e6859be0
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
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