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Uncinia strictissima (Kük.) Petrie

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(Kük.) Petrie
Kük.
Petrie
1915
55
ICN
species
Uncinia strictissima

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strictissima

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Uncinia strictissima (Kük.) Petrie

Forming dense, rush-like, olive-green tufts, from a slightly ascending rhizome 2–3 mm. diam. Culms 30–55–(70) cm. × c. 1 mm., trigonous and scabrid, but older culms becoming terete and glab., except just under infl.; basal bracts dull dark brown. Lvs 2–3 per culm, much < mature culms, us. involute, c. 1 mm. wide, or up to 2 mm. wide if flat, rigid, strongly nerved, scabrid on margins and on adaxial surface towards tip, sheaths and midrib bright red. Spikes 3–10 cm. long, us. subtended by a reddish bract > spike, female fls c. 10–15, ± distant in longer spikes, internodes up to 14 mm. long at base of spike, 3 mm. long above. Glumes < or = utricles, persistent, obtuse or lowermost subacute, coriac., green to light brown, tinged with pink, margins membr. Utricles 6–7.5 × c. 2 mm., plano-convex, nerved, light brown, often pink towards the top, stipe and beak both cuneate, each 1.5 mm. long.

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Uncinia strictissima (Kük.) Petrie
Uncinia strictissima (Kük.) Petrie
Uncinia strictissima (Kük.) Petrie
Uncinia strictissima (Kük.) Petrie
Uncinia strictissima (Kük.) Petrie
Uncinia strictissima (Kük.) Petrie
Uncinia strictissima (Kük.) Petrie
Uncinia strictissima (Kük.) Petrie
Uncinia strictissima (Kük.) Petrie
Uncinia strictissima (Kük.) Petrie
Uncinia strictissima (Kük.) Petrie
Uncinia strictissima (Kük.) Petrie
Uncinia strictissima (Kük.) Petrie

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328694b8-8492-452b-b9b8-6a0613da795d
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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
20 August 2015
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