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Carex fascicularis Boott

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Threat status: Declining

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Endemic
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New Zealand
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Boott
Boott
1853
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Carex fascicularis Boott
species
Carex fascicularis

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fascicularis

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Carex fascicularis Boott

Large pale green soft tufts to 1.2 m high. Leaves prominently septate-nodulose at base and on grey sheaths. Female spikes c. 5, ± distant, pedunculate, 5-7 × 1 cm, light greenish-brown. Glumes much < long-beaked glabrous utricles. Stigmas 3.

Carex fascicularis Boott

Tufts large, soft, pale green. Culms 60–110 cm. × 1.5–2.5 mm., triquetrous, very finely scabrid; basal sheaths grey. Lvs rather > culms, (4)–6–13 mm. wide, double-folded, with prominent cross-veinlets on lamina and sheath. Spikes 4–6; uppermost 1–(2) spikes male; remaining spikes female, (2)–5–7 cm. × 8–11 mm., us. slightly < male spikes, ± distant, pedunculate, pend. Glumes (excluding awn) c. ½ length of utricle, lanceolate, light brown, margins of upper half fimbriate or lacerate, midrib produced to a scabrid awn c. = glume in length. Utricles (4)–5–5.5–(6) × 1–1.5 mm., subtrigonous or inflated and biconvex, ovoid, distinctly nerved, light green, strongly reflexed; beak 1.5–2 mm. long, entirely glab.; stipe c. 1 mm. long, abruptly narrowed. Stigmas 3. Nut 1.5–2 mm. long, trigonous with thickened angles, obovoid, pale yellow-brown.

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Carex fascicularis Boott
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Carex forsteri var. fascicularis (Boott) Hook.f.
Carex fascicularis Boott
Carex pseudocyperus var. fascicularis (Boott) Boott
Carex fascicularis Boott

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Carex fascicularis Boott
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2cc2847b-fa53-47c1-bf6f-42db1996f513
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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
20 April 2009
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