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Carex muricata L.

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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Carex muricata L.
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Carex muricata

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muricata

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Carex muricata L.

Dense tufts from a very short rhizome. Stems 15-40 cm high, rather stout, trigonous, scabrid on angles below inflorescence. Leaves ± 2 mm wide, usually < stems, ± flat, margins finely scabrid; sheaths light brown below, whitish above and hyaline on inner face; ligule ± 2 mm long, about as long as broad. Inflorescence 2-3 cm long, of up to 8 sessile greenish-brown spikes, all ± contiguous or the lowest not more than its own length distant from the next; bracts, if present, setaceous. Spikes androgynous, male flowers at top, or lower spikes entirely female. Glumes < utricles, ovate, acute, light reddish-brown with wide green midrib. Utricles ± 3.5 × 2 mm, ovoid or broadly ellipsoid, distinctly nerved in lower half, green, becoming dark brown, shiny, rather abruptly narrowed to a short minutely scabrid beak < 1 mm long. Stigmas 2. Nut suborbicular, biconvex.

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Carex muricata L.
Carex muricata L.

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Carex muricata L.
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Carex muricata L.
Canada
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Finland
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France
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Germany
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Italy
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New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Carex muricata L.
New Zealand
Hawke's Bay Land District
Carex muricata L.
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
Carex muricata L.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Carex muricata L.
New Zealand
Taranaki Land District
Carex muricata L.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Carex muricata L.
Russian Federation
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United Kingdom
Carex muricata L.
United States

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2347d1b3-8d49-4986-808e-c7003f66da44
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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
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